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twofold in its nature, being a planetary and solar animal, 

 a vegetative and animal being. 



2014. Three animal systems must be developed out 

 of the three vegetative, an earth-, water-, and air-system, 

 each being refined or purified through the agency of light, 

 and forming the bones, muscles, and nerves, which corre- 

 spond to the gravity or materiality, the heat or motion, 

 and the light or tension. 



2015. Everything that is higher in its nature can 

 only be developed out of that which is its direct antece- 

 dent, like the blossom from the leaf. Now the artery is 

 the ultimate Vegetative. In this therefore, must the 

 elements of the osseous, muscular and nervous sys- 

 tems reside. Now, the artery consists, of four parts, 

 of the cellular, fibrous, dense serous coat, and of the 

 blood. The cellular coat or tunic is the remnant of the 

 whole tegumentary formation. The fibrous tunic is the 

 embryo of the muscular system. The serous tunic is the 

 embryo of the osseous system ; for in old age it attains 

 to ossification, bony lamellae being deposited around it. 

 The blood is the embryo of the nervous system. It is 

 only requisite for it to coagulate, and it is then nervous 

 mass. Nervous globules are blood-globules quiescent, 

 or in a state of rest. Accordingly, in the artery, 

 the whole body has been actually prefigurated or 

 typified. 



2016. Every animal system necessarily exists under a 

 duplex character, being once in the service of the vege- 

 tative systems and once for itself; or it exists as trunk 

 and as blossom. There is, therefore, a vegetative and 

 animal nervous system, and, under such binary condi- 

 tions, osseous and muscular systems likewise. 



2017. All three systems are offsets from the arteries, 

 and therefore their constant companions. The animal 

 systems are called flesh. 



1. NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



2018. The nervous mass is coagulated blood. The 

 nervous system is thus a higher arterial system. The 



