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the spirit from those of the body. For no less certainly does the mind see in spiritual light than does the body in natural light. The spirit sees, feels, tastes, perceives, and hears spiritual forces, as surely as the senses of the body cognize natural things. The inner eye sees truth, an inner sense feels kindness, an inner sense tastes love, an inner sense perceives a Divine Providence, an inner sense hears the voice of righteousness. These are all spiritual forces proper to the spiritual world, and are the effects of spiritual entities, though not natural, yet as real as those of heat, light, odor, or matter in any form.

Should it be said that these spiritual forces do exist, but that they are predicated of the mind, let it be remembered that they do not originate in physical sensations, but are purely mental in their primary action, which shows that the mind is not an organ of the body, but