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things, but it will be blind and wretched : as God declares 

 In bis word : " He who was blind in this world will be blind 

 in the future world, and in a most fatal path of error." 1 



The nature of death cannot be understood, unless we are 

 acquainted with these two kinds of spirit and with the 

 relations of dependence between them. Know, then, O 

 seeker, that the animal spirit belongs to the inferior world. 

 The elements of its four humors, blood, phlegm, bile and 

 black bile, are fire, air, water and earth. The animal spirit 

 is a product of a delicate exhalation from these elements. 

 The variations in the measure of a man's health depend 

 on the variations of heat, cold, dryness and moisture. Hence 

 it is the object of the science of medicine to preserve these 

 four elements in their due proportions, so that they may 

 serve as instruments to secure perfection to the human 

 spirit. 2 



The human spirit belongs to the superior world and is 

 of an angelic substance. It has come into this world a 

 stranger, and has descended from its original state to this 

 temporary home, to receive its destiny from divine direc- 

 tion, and for the purpose of acquiring the knowledge of 

 God. In accordance with this, God declares in his holy 

 word, "We said to them — leave paradise all of you just 

 as you are : a book destined for your guidance will come 

 to you from me: fear shall never befall those who will 

 follow it, and they shall not be afflicted." 3 And that 

 which God says in another place, points to the different de- 

 grees of worlds : " I create man of clay : and when I shall 

 have formed man of clay and shall have breathed my spirit 

 in him, prostrate yourselves before him in adoration." 4 

 First of all in his saying " from clay " he points to a material 

 body. The phrase " I shall have formed " indicates the 

 animal spirit. The phrase " shall have breathed my spirit 



1 S. 17 : 74. 2 See Good's Physiol. Proem 3 S. 2 : 36. 4 S. 15 : 28, 29. 



