IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL
the lowest; the lowest, consequently, exists and subsists from the first by means of the middle. . . . The determinations of the highest universal essence of the bodily system are those fibres which are the simplest of all, and which are like rays of the soul, and the first designations of forms. The determinations of the lower universal essence are those fibres which are derived from the most simple; but those of the lowest are the arterial and venous vessels. As the essences, so also the determinations are in turn derived from one another, the higher imparting being to the lower. From these determinations, or from these determining essences, all the organic viscera, and consequently the whole bodily system, is woven and formed."
"It is the cerebrum through which the intercourse between the soul and the body is established; for it is as it were the link and the uniting medium. From what follows it will appear that the soul is in the cerebrum as it were in its heaven and Olympus, though it is essentially everywhere and present in every individual part. In the cerebrum, however, is formed as it were its court and palace chamber, from which it looks around on
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