134 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



their sphere of life, a sphere of which 

 the soul can obtain knowledge only 

 indirectly by way of deductions. 

 Equally obvious it is that only the soul 

 can employ the organs of the body, 

 the functions of which fall within the 

 visible world. 



We have now endeavored to obtain 

 an understanding of the importance of 

 the soul to the cells by depriving the 

 latter of the direct influence of the 

 former. This resulted from the re- 

 moval of the brain, the organ by which 

 the soul more directly expresses itself. 

 But the soul is not actually removed 

 from the body. It still remains in the 

 whole cell-mass. The brain itself con- 

 sists of cells, in which the soul is not 

 present except as in all the other cells. 

 The difference is only that the brain- 

 cells are developed for the functions of 

 thought, whereas the cells in the other 

 organs are intended for their specific 

 purposes. In order to remove the soul 

 from the body we must remove the life 

 from every cell. The soul, as we in- 



