says "The influence conveyed through the nerves to the muscles, is, though not positively electric, yet a form of force nearly allied to the electric."[1] Though not apparently electric as compared to other manifestations of electricity, it is that manifestation of electric force that would necessarily characterize its use in the human mechanism, or be displayed in the body on the plane of electricity as the effects of willing.
f is the Rational plane of the Natural Mind, coincident with the aura, F, which contributes substance for the formation of the Rational, and enables the mind to operate in the body and on the planes of nature. The purest aura furnishes the substance for the first clothing of affection and thought in the body. Aura is the medium of gravity, which is matter's drawing power or affection, and is therefore, when it is organized as it is in the body, a suitable substance to receive the powers of spiritual affection, and to convey them to the lower planes of the body.
e, d, and c constitute the Spiritual Mind, which is within the spiritual body as the natural mind is within the natural body, or as the nervous fluids are within the nerves.
e is the Spiritual-Natural plane, placed coin-
- ↑ First Principles, p. 72
