Human Organic
Lecture Notes by Hugo Lj. Odhner
Part 2, Chapter VII GENERAL TEACHINGS ABOUT THE BODY OF MAN 1. Man is a spirit clothed with a body.(406) Inwardly regarded, the bodies of men are nothing but forms of their minds outwardly organized to carry out the behests of the soul....(407) The material body invests the spirit or the spiritual body.(408) 2. The body is the material substance everywhere annexed to the spirit, adapting it to the world of nature in which man at first lives.(409) It is an instrument or material organ.(410) It is a covering woven from the things of the natural world.(411) It is a covering, organ, or instrument.(412) It is an external through which the mind or spirit feels and acts in its world.(413) 3. The office of the body. The
body never lives or thinks, but serves man for living on earth.(414)
The material body is an accessory for the sake of procreations,(415)
and for the formation of the inward man or spirit.(416)
It is for uses in the world.(417)
4. Care of the body. "Man should take every care of his body, to nourish it, to clothe it, to let it enjoy the delights of the world; but all these things not for the sake of the body, but in order that the soul in a sound body may act correspondently and rightly, and may have the body as an organ perfectly obedient to it...." (419) 5. As to the body, man is a microcosm, or little world.(420) It is composed of the most arcane things of nature.(421) Each thing in the body has within it an idea of the universe.(422) 6. The body contains "infinite" varieties, yet is maintained in unity.(423) Despite manifold constituents, man feels the human form as a one.(424) There must be no part lacking for man to be a man.(425) 7. Everything in the body contributes
to use.(426) Use cannot be separated
from organic things.(427) 8. It is not the body which lives, senses, or thinks.(428)
The sensitive power which appears in the body is properly of the spirit,
and is of the body only through influx.(429)
Other spirits are not permitted to inflow into the solid tissues of the
body, but there is an influx of the spheres of evil spirits into the unclean
things belonging to diseases.(430)
9. All things of the body correspond
to, and represent, the things of the mind (mens) and the animus.(432)
10. The body is ruled by general influx.
Bodily things are exempt from the influx of particular spirits and angels,
and are ruled by means of a general influx.(434)
11. The body blunts and absorbs
the sensations of the mind.(438) The body
is only as it were a covering or shell which is dissolves for man truly
to live.(439)
12. Death comes to the body when
it is in such a state that it cannot act in unison with the spirit. (441)
13. For a discussion of the spiritual body,
see Part Four, section on "The Spiritual Organic".
FOOTNOTES 408 TCR 583, 454e, 798; ISB11;LJpost, 323e. 409 AC 4659, cfD. Wis.vii. 4, vii. 2 4. 412 Coro.11;AC 6872 3; HH 602e; AE 152:2. 415 TCR 454e, cfD. Wis.viii (3) 417 AC 3813 :5, 4364 4; DLW 386. 419 AC 5949:2, 5149:3, cf 6936, 7038, 3951:3, 8378; DLW 330, 331. 422 D. Love xiii:4; L] 9. See chapter IX. 423 AC 3745, 5598:2, 9613, 4302:3 (cf WE 934); AR 66, 73; DP 180:2, 199:3. 426 AC 550, 1103:2; SD 1121, art. 427 SD 3577, cf AC 4223; SD 2512, 4630; AE 1194:2; D. Love iv:2. See Part Four, pp. E 2-3. 430 AC 5713, 5715, expl. SD min. 4648-50. 432 DLW 374, err; AC 4292: 4; WE 934f; AC 10264 :3, 10298: 3, 10823; TCR 325:2;CL 310:2; D. Wis.ii.4 434 AC 5990, cf 5850, 5862, 6192, 6211, 3629 seq., cf 5993. 438 TCR 569; AC 1757; CL 178, cf AC 4622 2, 4652. 442 DP 220 3; DLW 257, 388. See Part Four, section 443 LJ post. 87, 129 2; TCR 109; AC 1729, 5078e.
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