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The Successive Planes Of The Body Are
Formed From The Coincident Planes Of
Material Substances.

The natural body is formed from the different degrees of matter. The lower parts of the body, the skin, bones, and flesh are composed of the lowest discrete degree of matter, the earthy and aerial substances. The nerve system employs in addition the still higher discrete degree of ether in which is electricity: the ethereal matter furnishes the medium through which the muscles are operated from the mind. The purest matter in the brain constituting the Limbus, is from the purest aura, a still higher discrete degree. In such order the material body is formed.

The Successive Planes Of The Soul Are
Formed From The Coincident Planes
Of Spiritual Substances.

The soul is formed from the degrees of the substances that constitute the spiritual creation in the same manner that the body is formed from the natural world. The spiritual body as to its lower parts is formed from the lower substances of the spiritual world or the spiritual earth. The lower atmosphere of the spiritual world enters in to form the Spiritual-Natural plane; a still