AC 4345 - the whole is composed of parts

AC 4345 [2,3]
A whole cannot be called a whole unless there are parts,
for the whole consists of parts.
For in the nature of things
there is nothing which does not
come forth and subsist from other things,
and because it comes forth and subsists from other things
it is called a general,
and the things of which it consists
and from which it subsists
are said to be particulars.
External things are what consist of internal things,
and therefore external things are relatively general.

The body itself, and the things of the body,
such as those called the external senses and the actions,
are relatively the most general.
The natural mind and the things of this mind are less general,
because more interior,
and relatively are called particulars.
But the rational mind and the things of this mind
are still more interior,
and relatively are singulars.
All this is clear to the life
when a person puts off the body and becomes a spirit . . ..