32 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



would be surprised to fiud the social 

 organism composed of human individ- 

 uals, which fact would seem just as 

 mystical to them as the cells seemed 

 at first to us. So far as we have de- 

 rived from experience a knowledge of 

 organic structure, it reveals itself to us 

 as an individual composed of more primi- 

 tive and elementary individuals. These 

 elementary units of lower kind and or- 

 der might consequently be called a 

 spiritual body in a literal sense. 



From the point of view of the ele- 

 mentary constituent, each organism is 

 a community, a unit of similar, inde- 

 pendently living, individuals; from the 

 point of view of the organs and of the 

 whole, this community itself is a living 

 individual of higher potency and may 

 in its turn enter as an elementary or- 

 ganism in a spiritual body of still 

 higher power, and so on, in a geometric- 

 series. Man enters into the social or- 

 ganism, but is himself composed of 

 cell-organisms, which in turn consist of 

 more primary units. 



