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activity from the Creator, and the conception of the mind as the sensorium upon which the Inmost acts, removes all difficulty. The mind itself, being the sensorium, can be conscious of itself. The Inmost is above human consciousness, because at one time a thing can not be the subject and object of thought. The organism of the mind is within the spiritual body as the brain with its branches is within the material body. The Inmost is within the mind-organism as the purest fluid of the body is within the brain and its extension of nerves. The Inmost receives activity from the Creator, and passes it to the mind just as the purest fluid in the brain receives activity from the spiritual substances of affection and thought, and communicates it to the nerves.

The activity first passing from the Creator is the Divine of the Lord going forth, and is properly called the Divine Proceeding, B. In it are all creative powers. "Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are created."

A is the Creator, the Father of all. "Hath not one God created us?"

The Limbus.

It will next be noticed that the lowest degree of matter contributes to the formation of the grosser part of the material body, that the ether