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received by an organ fitted to focus them in a centre, 

 thus giving rise to self-consciousness, we call that 

 organ Mind, and the action through that Mind, In- 

 telligence. The mere name is as arbitrary as any 

 other name, and we class these under mental, just 

 as a certain range of etheric vibrations is classed as 

 light, is received by an organ fitted to focus them 

 that we call the eye, and the action through that 

 eye is vision. If we are to talk at all, we must have 

 names to describe different classes of phenomena, 

 and we use the word mental or intelligent to 

 describe the range of vibrations working in the 

 particular kind of matter of which, in the upward 

 evolution, an organ is builded that we call the 

 Mind. So, again, to the vibrations that He sends 

 out into the next coarser form of matter, called 

 Apas, or astral, we give the name Sensory. He 

 imparts to them the quality of responding to pleasure 

 and pain, and as He makes this downward sweep 

 He brings into renewed existence on each plane 

 Devas, or beings which have as their characteristic 

 manifestation the quality of their own plane ; thus 

 the Devas of the mental plane have the quality of 

 intelligence as their chief peculiarity, and the 

 Devas of the next lower plane have as their chief 

 quality feeling, or the power of sensation, and those 

 of the lowest plane have as their chief quality action, 



