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Mind, serving both for sense and action, is an organ by affinity, being 

 cognate with the rest. 



l^hese eleven organs, with the two principles of intelligence and con- 

 sciousness, are thirteen instruments of knowledge : three internal, and ten 

 external, likened to three warders and ten gates.* 



An external sense perceives ; the internal one examines ; consciousness 

 makes the selfish application ; and intellect resolves : an external organ 

 executes. 



20 — 24. Five elements, produced from the five elementary particles or 

 rudiments. 1st, A diffused, etherial fluid (acdsa), occupying space : it has 

 the property of audibleness, being the vehicle of sound, derived from the 

 sonorous rudiment or etherial atom. 2d, Air, which is endued with the 

 properties of audibleness and tangibility, being sensible to hearing and 

 touch ; derived from the tangible rudiment, or aerial atom. 3d, Fire, which 

 is invested with properties of audibleness, tangibility, and colour ; sensible 

 to hearing, touch, and sight : derived from the colouring rudiment, or 

 igneous atom. 4th, Water, which possesses the properties of audibleness, 

 tangibility, colour and savour ; being sensible to hearing, touch, sight, and 

 taste : derived from the savoury rudiment, or aqueous atom. 5th, Earth, 

 which unites the properties of audibleness, tangibility, colour, savour, and 

 odour ; being sensible to hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell : derived 

 from the odorous rudiment, or terrene atom. 



25. Soul, termed Purusha, Pumas, or Aiman ; which is neither produced 

 nor productive. It is multitudinous, individual, sensitive, eternal, unalter- 

 able, immaterial. 



The theistical Sdnc'hya recognises the same principles ; understanding, 

 however, by Purusha, not individual soul alone, but likewise God (Iswara), 

 the ruler of the world. 



These twenty-five principles are summarily contrasted in the Cdricd. 

 " Nature, root of all, is no production. Seven principles ; the great or 

 intellectual one, &c., are productions and productive. Sixteen are produc- 

 tions (unproductive J. Soul is neither a production, nor productive."! 



To this passage a close resemblance will be remarked in one which occurs 

 at the beginning of Erigena's treatise De Divisione Naturae, where he dis- 

 tinguishes these four : " That which creates and is not created ; that which 



* Car. 32—35. f Car. 3. 



