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The Soul or Rational Psychology by Emanuel Swedenborg ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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The Soul and the Body

The senses are what inform the mind in order that the rational may hear. Yea, even the power and faculty of understanding is not a property of the body or of the external senses, but is of the soul. The soul may be compared with the light which surrounds the eye. Without the light, there could be no discrimination whatever between the less luminous and the shady. So is the soul, that which pours in a certain light in order that verities may appear as verities. While the sensations, on the other hand, add certain doubtful phenomena, which, as it were, cast a shadow on the verities. And from these again, opinions, hypothesis, conjectures

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