1. The Way to a Knowledge of the Soul. V. The nature of the ext CONTENTS of SWEDENBORG'S PHYSIOLOGICAL and tions communicate with internal, or the external sensories w PHILOSOPHICAL POSTHUMOUS TRACTS on the following the more internal, and with the inmost, by means of the fibre subjects: Written before his Illumination, and trans-III. No sensation is possible, without a convenient orga lated by Dr. J. J. G. Wilkinson. London copy, $1,33. substance. IV. The nature of the sensation is as that of t organic substance; and vice versa. This, in the style of "Prof. Bush's Reasons," is 124 nal sensation is determined by the nature of the communicati with the internal sensorium. VI. The form of the sensation cents single, $1 for ten, $8 for one hundred. as the form of the organ. VII. The internal sensation c VIII. exist and live, without the external, but not vice versa. is the soul alone which feels, perceives, and understand IX. All sensation both external and internal, is a passion hence, during sensation the soul is passive. XX. The modific tions of the air and ether, in the world, correspond to heari and sight in the animated body: and these modifications liv and become sensations, the instant they come in contact wi a sensorial organ, conformable to them. XI. The ideas of t memory are similar modifications to the images of sight, b fixed in the organs, whereby they present themselves to imag nation and thought, as external objects present themselves sight. XII. By the instrumentality of sensations, the soul d sires to know what is going on in the world below it, whither descends, in forming the body, and the sensory and moto organs. XIII. The organs of the external senses are constructe with the most elaborate reference to the whole form of force and corresponding modifications. The blood contains all the organic forms, from the primary spiritual to the ultimate angular, &c. I. The blood is that thick, red, heavy humor which circulates through the heart, arteries, and veins. II. The parts of the genuine, or red blood, are spherical in shape, and consist of globules, surrounded with serum. III. Each globule contains within it, and carries in its bosom, details more numerous than the eye can ever discover, or the mind conceive. IV. The red blood globule admits of division into six lesser and pellucid globules. V. In the red blood globele, there are also a number of saline and urinous particles, of different shapes. VI. The redness of the blood arises from the interposition, in each globule, of salino-volatile particles. VII. The gravity of the red blood results from the same saline and urinous particles, which are contained in the globules, VIII. The warmth of the blood differs in different cases, and arises from different causes. IX. The genuine blood is relatively soft, and admits of extension and division; and its softness arises from the purer and white blood, which lies in the red globules. X. In the living body, the red blood undergoes perpetual dissolution, purification, and renewal. XI. The glouble of the red blood contains within it the purer blood and the animal spirit, and the latter, the purest essence of the body, that is to say, the soul; whereby the red blood is a spirituous and animated humor. XII. The red blood partakes almost equally of the soul and the body, and may be termed both spiritual and material. XIII. The red blood may be called the bodily soul., XIV. There is a common and obscure life in the red blood. XV. From the red blood, we may judge of the nature of the purer blood; and from the purer blood, the nature of the animal spirit; and from the animal spirit, that of the soul; with the help, however, of the doctrine of forms, order, and degrees. XVI. There are three orders of blood, the gross blood, the purer, and the purest. XVII. The fabric or form, of the prior, or purer blood, is more perfect than the fabric and form of the posterior, or grosser blood. XVIII. The three bloods reign both XIX. The animal conjointly and separately in the animal body. spirit acts on the blood, and the blood on the spirit, by means of the vessels and fibres; whence the alternate and reciprocal action of the muscles. XX. The state of the red blood depends upon the state of the purer blood, and the state of the latter upon that of the spirits. XXI. Infinite changes of state happen to both the red and the purer blood. XXII. The blood of one individual is never absolutely similar to the blood of another. XXIII. The red blood is the seminary of all the humors of the body. rial. 3. The Animal Spirit. I. The animal spirit is that most pure humor which flows through the medullary fibres of the brain, and the nervous fibres of the body. II. The animal spirit is conceived and prepared in the cortical gland, and flows out therefrom into the fibres. III. The quality of the animal spirit may be known, from the quality of the fibre that it permeates, and vice versa. IV. The animal spirit is the intermediate essence between the soul and the body; hence it is the mediatorial substance which provides for the communication of operations between the two. V. The animal spirit partakes of the essence of the soul, and of the essence of the body; that is to say, it is both spiritual and mateVI. The animal spirit is identical with the purer, middle, and white bloo! VII. As the animal spirit is conceived and prepared in the cortical glands, it follows, that the spiritual and material principles meet in it. VIII. The simple fibre, arising from its own simple cortex, pours into the minute cavity, or chamber of the gland, a substance of the purest kind, which is conceived and born in the simple cortex, i. e., the substance of the soul. And the finest vessels, which constitute the other portion of this simple or vascular medulla, supply a lymph, or serum, of the purest nature, capable of containing the purer corpuscules, or the first sulphureo-saline elements. From the marringe of these two substances, the animal spirit is born. IX. There is also a perpetual circulation of the animal spirits, from the cortical glands, through the medullary fibres of the brain, and the nervous fibres of the body, into the blood-vessels, and from the blood-vessels, or arteries, back into the cortical glands, and so again into the fibres. X. The soul, apart from the animal spirit, could never have constructed the simpler and middle organic forms of the body. XI. The soul, apart from the animal spirit, could never produce the heart; or the vessels, either arterial, or venous; or the red blood; or consequently, the ultimate organic form of the body. XII. Without the animal spirit, the soul could determine nothing into action, and could do nothing in the body. XIII. Without the animal spirit, the soul could feel none of the changes that happen to the body. XIV. The nature of the action and sensation, and even of the imagination and thought, in an individual, are correspondent to the nature of the animal spirit, and the circulation thereof in the body. XV. The animal spirit makes us both spiritual and corporeal. XVI. In the human microcosm, all that is above the animal spirit, constitutes the inner man; and all that is below it, the outer. XVII. The animal spirit is never absolutely similar, in any two individuals; on the contrary, it is different in all the subjects of human society, and always different at different times, in one and the same person. 4. Sensation, or the Passion of the Body. I. Sensations are external and internal. II. External sensa 5. The Origin and Propagation of the Soul. I. The soul of the offspring comes from the soul of the paren II. The soul of the offspring is conceived in the male, bt clothed in successive order with the requisite organic forms the posterior sphere, in a word, with the body, in the ovu and womb of the mother. III. The simple animal substance or primary forms, are conceived and excluded by a transcender process in the simple cortex, and so the soul is procreated i every living creature. IV. The body and the animal kingdo are at an end as soon as ever this living spring and perennia source of the soul are arrested. 6. Action. I. The action of the whole body, its viscera, and their parts, i performed by the motive fibres and the muscles. II. The bod is so articulated by the muscles, that there is no part withou its peculiar motion and action. III. Each individual part o the animated body has its own proper motion, and each actio consists of an infinity of motions as its parts. IV. The characte of the action is determined by the nature of the muscle. V. Th body lives in acting, and acts in living. VI. Without the ani mal spirit, and without the blood, or without the fibre and th artery, no muscular action can exist. VII: There are thre general sources of motion and action, in the animal body namely, the animation of the brain, the systole and diastole o the heart, and the respiration of the lungs; besides which there are many specific sources, and innumerable particula ones. VIII. Speech is the action of the tongue, larynx, tra chea, and lungs. IX. The cortical glands in the cerebrum an cerebellum correspond to the motive fibres in the muscles of the body; consequently, the action of the cortical glands correspond to the action of the muscles. X. There is not a cortical glane in the cerebrum, but corresponds to a particular motive fibre is the body. XI. The cortical gland of the cerebrum and cere bellum cannot act on its corresponding motive fibre of the body without an active or living force, that is to say, without expansion or constriction. XII. The cerebrum is articulated and subdivider in such wise, that it can excite to action a greater or lesser num ber of the cortical glands, and so produce, by the muscles, any ae tion that it pleases. XII. Voluntary action is a special and par ticular animation, or excitation, of the cortical glands of the cere XIII. Spontaneous brum, subordinate to its general animation. and natural action proceeds from the general animation of the cerebrum and cerebellum, undistinguished by any particular nat mation. XIV. Most of the muscles of the body are supplied with the fibre of both the cerebrum and cerebellum; und hence are capable of both natural and voluntary action. XV. Action is determined by the cortical glands, by the process of expansior and constriction; nevertheless, the power, that expands and constricts the glands, or excites them to act, resides within the glands themselves. XVI. We view, and contemplate with the mind, the whole action before it exists. XVII. An action is an idea of the mind, represented in the body by the ministration of organs; hence, the whole body is moulded to the image of the operations of the mind. XVIII. Any habitual action recurs, in a manner spontaneously with the whole of its form, by virtue of the mere force impressed by the mind, almost in the same manner as a natural action. XIX. There is both internal action and external, and an actual harmony is established on both hands between them. XX. There can be no force without action, no aetion without change of state, no change of state without an iden of motion that which thence results constitutes an effect. XXI. XXII. Rational As action is change of state or of coexistents, so there is purely |