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a dim and vague, and at the same 

 time unmistakable suggestion which 

 characterizes all we comprehend by our 

 emotional faculties. Spiritual body 

 means what the words say, a spiritual- 

 ity derived from, or belonging to, the 

 body. But as no spirituality exists 

 which is not individualized or is not a 

 quality of a living being, this spiritual 

 body must be identical with either one 

 single unit or with a multitude of 

 living units. One single unit it cannot 

 be, because this unity would then be 

 identical with the soul, while on the 

 contrary, the spiritual body should 

 be independent, existing per se. It 

 remains then a multitude of spirit- 

 ual units, which is precisely what 

 natural science has proved to be the 

 case, and these units in marts spiritual 

 hody are identical with the living cells. 



Before the discovery of the cell, our 

 knowledge of the human body was con- 

 fined to such phenomena as could be 

 observed with the naked eye. The or- 

 ganism from that standpoint was neces- 



