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for an instant ; but as stone, air and such like entities, 

 abideth alway, as if to solicit and preserve us for its 

 investigation. 



A Philosophy or Ethicks apart from Physio-philosophy 

 is a nonentity, a bare contradiction, just as a flower 

 without a stem is a non-existent thing. 



3591. As many essential members as Physio-philoso- 

 phy hath, into so many must Pneumato-philosophy also 

 divide, and this too so exactly that the two shall cover 

 each other. 



The reason why one has hitherto rambled about in 

 Pneumato-philosophy without ballast and without 

 compass, depends solely upon the disregard which has 

 been paid to the science or knowledge of Nature. It is 

 in fact not difficult to understand how impossible it must 

 be, from observations made upon the rapidly evanescent 

 phenomena of the spirit, to thence abstract a system of 

 the laws in conformity wherewith this spirit manifests itself 

 or acts. Spirit is nothing different from Nature, but simply 

 her purest outbirth or offspring, and therefore her symbol, 

 her language. With such a basis as this, we shall no 

 longer pursue the ignesfatui of the mind, but first of all 

 endeavour to banish them into the provinces or realms 

 of Nature, and there co-ordinate them in conformity with 

 her laws ; then for the first time shall we recognize the 

 flaming lights of the mind and the divine voices, which 

 all matter proclaimeth through the speech of Man. 



He, who were once in a condition to reveal or disclose 

 this conformity of Nature's phenomena with those of 

 Spirit, will have learnt the philosophy of the latter. 



2. Functions of the Vascular or Sexual Animals. 



3592. These animals are no longer merely sentient, 

 ' clairvoyant' Acalephse, because, in addition to the nervous 

 mass, they are provided with other systems, such as 

 the sexual and vascular, with the special organs of diges- 

 tion and taste. 



These three or four organs must also resolve them- 

 selves into three spiritual functions ; the vascular system 



