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more arteriose in character. This tension is communi- 

 cated to all the nerves, sensitive as well as motor, and 

 continues in their interlude with the world and the 

 motor system. 



2741. If this encephalic tension is not too potent, it 

 remains only in the brain, without the ability to polar i/c 

 the nerves also. It then only produces cerebral phe- 

 nomena, thoughts or dreams. 



2742. Dreaming is an encephalic tension excited by 

 the organization, not by the world. 



2743. Dreaming is the first step in the liberation of 

 the animal from the vegetable system it is the first step 

 towards mesmerism. 



2744. In a perfect or middling state of health, where 

 the nervous is not very much separated from the tegu- 

 mentary system, we do not dream. 



2745. In a healthy condition an external - stimulus 

 would be, consequently, the only cause of waking, did 

 not the long repose bestow a preponderating influence 

 upon the cortical substance. Dreams therefore happen 

 in the morning. 



2746. Waking is the intercourse with the world, not 

 with self. If one wakes also from intercourse with self, 

 still the former is synchronous and coexciting. 



2747. Thus, if intercourse with the world ceases, sleep 

 originates. If the vegetable intercourse with it also 

 ceases, then death originates. Waking is "consensus " 

 with the world. 



2748. Sleep is a death of the animal systems. 



2749. Every awaking is a resurrection from death, a 

 new sympathizing with the vegetal body, from which 

 the animal body again originates. 



2750. As the animal originally took its rise from, and 

 only through the plant, so also is this repeated in an 

 individual. The plant is the ever-living, ever- verdant, 

 or green, out of which the animal daily sprouts forth 

 as a blossom. 



2751. The animal intercourse with the world is also 

 interrupted in two ways, and there are therefore two 

 modes of falling asleep. 



