tinuous principle are brought forth and produced all things of the body from the head even to the soles of the feet; their productions are effected according to the laws of correspondence, and therefore all things of the body both internal and external are correspondences.
The organic parts of the body produced from various complicated fibres, are effects, which cannot live, feel, and be moved from themselves, but from their origins by a continuous [principle]: to illustrate this by example; the eye does not see from itself, but by what is continuous from the understanding, for the understanding sees by the eye, and also moves the eye, determines it to objects, and gives intenseness to the sight; neither does the ear hear from itself, but by what is continuous from the understanding, for the understanding hears by the ears, and also determines them, makes them erect and attentive to sounds; nor does the tongue speak from itself, but from the thought of the understanding, for thought speaks by the tongue, and varies sounds, and exalts their measures at pleasure; in like manner the muscles, these not being moved of themselves, but from the will together with the understanding, which actuate them at their own disposal. It is evident, that there is not anything in the body which feels and is moved of itself, but from its origins, in which reside the understanding and will, consequently which are in man the receptacles of love and wisdom. These are the first forms; the organs both of sense and of motion are forms derived from them, for according to formation is effected influx, which is not given from the latter into the former, but from the former into the latter, for influx from the former into the latter is spiritual influx, and influx from the latter into the former is natural influx, which is also called physical.
Those productions are effected according to the laws of correspondence, and all things of the body, both internal and external, are correspondences. Correspondence is between what is natural and what is spiritual. When anything derived from a spiritual principle as its
