DLW 371
There is a correspondence
of the will with the heart,
and of the intellect with the lungs.
We propose to demonstrate this
according to the following outline:
(1) All the constituents of
the mind
are connected with the will and intellect,
and all the
constituents of the body
with the heart and lungs.
(2) There is a
correspondence
of the will and intellect with the heart and lungs,
and
consequently a correspondence
of all the mind's constituents
with all
the body's constituents.
(3) The will corresponds to the heart.
(4) The intellect corresponds to the lungs.
(5)
Through that correspondence
one can discover many secrets
relating to
the will and intellect,
and so also to love and wisdom.
(6) A
person's mind is his spirit,
and the spirit is the person,
the body
being the outward instrument
by which the mind or spirit senses and acts
in the physical world.
DLW 372
(1) All the constituents of the mind
are connected with
the will and intellect,
and all the constituents of the body
with the
heart and lungs.
By the mind
we mean nothing else than the will and
intellect,
which comprise in their entirety
all that a person feels and
all that a person thinks,
thus all elements that pertain
to a person's
affection and thought.
The things that a person feels are properties of
his will,
and those that he thinks are properties of his intellect.
People
know
that all the components of a person's thought
are properties of
his intellect,
since a person thinks with the intellect.
But it is not
so well known
that all the components of a person's affection
are
properties of his will.
It is not so well known
for the reason that when
a person thinks,
he does not pay attention to his affection,
but only
to what he is thinking.
Similarly, when he hears someone speaking,
he
does not pay attention to the intonation
but to the utterance itself.
And yet the affection in thinking
is like the intonation in speech,
which is why from the intonation of a speaker
one discerns his
affection,
and from the utterance his thought.
Affection is a property of the will
because every
affection is a property of love,
and the recipient vessel of love is the
will,
as we showed above.
that affection is a property of the will
confuses affection with thought;
for he says that it is one with thought.
But in fact they are not one,
but operate as one.
DLW 373
Please do not think of these things
as existing in a vacuum.
A vacuum is nothingness,
and in nothing nothing happens,
and from nothing nothing springs.
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