Any other view is insufficient to account for the effects.
We can imagine the vegetable soul, while inspired from the realm of the spiritual, yet belonging in origin to the lowest unconscious external plane of the spiritual. For the vegetable has no conscious life, no mentality, nothing that pertains to the spiritual, except the instinct to grow.
We can imagine the animal soul because it develops life on the plane of the Mental and Sentient, but not on the plane of Spirit, or regenerate life, to have its soul only in the realm of the spiritual embraced by the Natural Mind in the diagrams we have made.
We perceive that the human soul is, as we have described it, a receptacle of life on the plane first of the Unconscious or Inmost Spiritual, thence upon the plane of Spirit, thence upon the plane of Mind, and manifesting itself through the physical body on the plane of Matter.
Now whence do these receptacles of life come?
The vegetable soul, while a result of creation and continued by its processes, comes from and exists in the seed
