Conv. with Angels (Whitehead) n. 9

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9. All things inflow with man, so that man is only a recipient organ.

He is an organ recipient of all things of heaven as to his mind, and recipient of the world as to his body.

As the eye is a recipient of light, the ears recipients of sound, and the remaining things of the body, so the understanding is a recipient of the light of heaven or of wisdom, and the will is a recipient of the heat of heaven, thus of love.

There is nothing in man but the faculty of receiving. It may be illustrated by the organs what the faculty is.

Natural objects are felt in the organs of the body as if they were in them, and spiritual objects in like manner are felt as if in the mind, although they are not there.

These are fallacies of sensation


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