{The Mind}[5th October 1987]

[Redbook4:103-104][19871005:2320d]{The Mind}[5th October 1987]

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What is the machinery, the process by which the Spirit and the Soul inhabit and then leave the Body? I don't know; but as the Spirit is the Spirit of God the Spirit, which is indivisible,* it is likely that from a higher point of view it is not so much a question of the Spirit being in a Man's Body as of a Man's Mind being open to the Spirit, which he finds within and which (to him) seems particular to him. It is still that Spirit which leads a Man to search for and know God, of which from the Man's point of view it is an exiled part and 'longs to return'**. This is because unperfected Man is bound to see things to an extent blinkered by his own limitations of the Material World, even when he sees, or sees through, the Spirit.

Similarly the Soul does not exist within the Body of a Man but is gathered around the Spirit (as for Angels)*** in a form reminiscent of those diaphanous appearances traditional to accounts of ghostly manifestations.****

No physical connection of the Body and the Brain with the Soul and the Spirit is likely: the actual connection is Mind, that real and indefinable attribute whose nature has puzzled Man for centuries.

I guess that the Body physically supports the Brain, in the Material World; that the Spirit inspires the Soul in the Spiritual Realm; and that the connection between Soul and Brain is Mind. I guess that Brain gives Mind power to change and develop; that as soon as Brain ceases to function, Mind ceases to be capable of change and development and therefore {(?)} ceases to exist, leaving only Soul, drawn by Spirit back to{wards} God the Spirit, where the final transformation of the Soul is brought about by the Spirit.

*-- despite 'God divides God' ([2]): the difference is in the viewpoint (See below [presumably within the same paragraph (or possibly the same ms entry)]). <930502>

**cf. [2].

***[See [Redbook4:91][19871003:2220]{The Appearance of Angels}[3rd October 1987], &

[Redbook4:96-97][19871004:2105]{The Forms of Angels}[4th October 1987]]

****[cf. [Redbook4:111-113][19871006:1020h]{Ghosts}[6th October 1987]]

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