DLW 382, 383, 384 - The Will & Heart and the Intellect & Lungs (4) The Intellect Corresponds to the Lungs

DLW 382 [end of 1-2,3]

Everyone may also observe in himself
that the intellect corresponds to the lungs
by considering both his thought and his speech.

As regards thought,
it is impossible for anyone to think
without his pulmonary respiration's
concurring and according.
Consequently when someone thinks quietly,
he breathes quietly.
If he thinks deeply, he breathes deeply.

As regards speech,
not the least utterance of a word
flows from the mouth
without the ancillary aid of the lungs.
For sound which is articulated into words
issues wholly from the lungs

DLW 383 [3-4]

Because breath passes through the nostrils,
therefore the nose symbolizes perception . . ..

It is owing to this, too,
that the word for spirit and wind
in Hebrew and in some other languages
is the same.
For the word "spirit"
is derived from a word meaning "to breathe."
Consequently when a person dies
he is also said to breathe his last
and yield up the spirit.

It is owing to this as well
that people believe
the spirit to be a gust of wind or some airy entity,
like a puff of breath exhaled from the lungs,
and the soul likewise.

It can be seen from this
that to love God
with all one's heart and all one's soul
means to do so
with all one's love and all one's intellect,
and that giving a new heart and a new spirit
means giving a new will and a new intellect.

DLW 384

Since all the mind's constituents
are connected with the will and intellect,
and all the body's constituents
with the heart and lungs,
therefore in the head
the brain is divided into two structures,
and these are as distinct from each other
as the will and intellect from each other.
The cerebellum serves primarily the will,
and the cerebrum primarily the intellect.

In the body, the heart and lungs are likewise
separated from the rest of the organs there.
They are separated by the diaphragm
and enveloped in their own covering,
called the pleura,
and they form that part of the body called the chest.

In the remaining constituents of the body,
called its members, organs and viscera,
these two elements are conjoined.
Consequently the parts exist in pairs,
such as the arms and hands,
loins and feet, eyes and nostrils,
and, inside the body,
the kidneys, ureters, and testes.
Even organs that do not exist in pairs
are divided into a right and left side -
including the cerebrum itself into two hemispheres,
the heart itself into two ventricles,
and the lungs themselves into two lobes.
Moreover, the right side of these relates to
the goodness of truth,
and the left side to the truth of good.