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in the whole system ; so that, for instance, the real 

 ' liver ' is to be found in all parts of the body, and 

 has its herd in that organ which we call the liver. All 

 the members of the body are potentially contained in 

 the centre of the vital fluid, which has its seat in 

 the brain, while the activity which propels it comes 

 from the heart " ^ {Be Virihus Memhrorum). 



Mind is not created by the brain, neither is love nor 

 hate created by the heart ; but mind acts through the 

 brain, and love and hate have their origin in the heart. 

 " A man who is angry is not only angry in his head 

 or in his fist, but all over ; a person who loves does 

 not only love with his eye, but with his whole being ; 

 in short, all the organs of the body, and the body itself, 

 are only form-manifestations of previously and universally 

 existing mental states." 



" The body of a man is his house ; the architect who 

 builds it is the astral world. The carpenters are at one 

 time Jupiter, at another Venus ; at one time Taurus, 

 at another Orion. Man is a sun and a moon and a 

 heaven filled with stars ; the world is a man, and the 

 light of the sun and the stars is his body ; the ethereal 

 body cannot be grasped, and yet it is substantial, because 

 substance (from suh, under, and stOy standing) means exist- 

 ence, and without substance nothing exists. If the life 

 of the sun did not act in the world, nothing would grow. 

 The human body is vapour materialised by sunshine 



^ This doctrine is corroborated by modern discoveries. Amputations 

 of limbs are followed by a state of atrophy of certain parts of brain- 

 substance, which seems to indicate that the force which shapes the 

 limbs has its centre in the brain. If certain parts of the brain were 

 destroyed, the limbs would begin to atrophy. If we apply this mode of 

 reasoning to the Macrocosm, we find that all the essences and ethers that 

 go to make up the organs of the Macrocosm are also contained in its 

 centre, the snn ; and if a certain element were taken away from the sun, 

 the planets could not continue to exist in their present condition. If a 

 certain element that goes to form the legs of men were suddenly taken 

 away from the universal storehouse of the Macrocosm (the Limhus), 

 human beings would be born without legs ; if no principle of reason 

 sxisted, there would be no use for brains, &c. 



