Human Brains & Medullas: the most perfect in the whole nature

Human Brains & Medullas

The most perfect creation of God in the whole nature

The Economy of The Animal Kingdom, part iii, The Fibre, chapter i, The Cortical and Cineritious Substance

72.    From these considerations, it is quite apparent  that in perfect and healthy brains and medullas, all things, with their component parts, are so diposed and ordered that nothing more disposed and more ordered can be concieved of in the whole of nature.

See Trans. I, n. 248, seq.

But, O how dull of perception are they who believe there is nothong regular, ordered and distinct, except what is acknowledged by the judgment of the eye! In the eyes of their mind is set, as it were, a cataract, and the points of rational light straightway turn them dizzy. If only they evolve visible phenomena to their causes, they will surely find nothing unarranged, nothing wandering in the chance of conflux, and without law.

73.    For each single cortical spherule is so situated, and each fibre so flows, that it seems to itself to be in the center, in the radius, in every point of the periphery, and in a thousand points at the same time; and thus, to be established in the very conatus of the single parts ans in the motion of the whole; and hence in such a state that, of itself and its own nature, it knows what the soul is intending in the beginnings, and what she is doing in the extremes. 

Similar to what we fond in the parts of the cerebrum, we find also in the parts of the atmosphere, as is abundantly evident from rays in the ether, sounds in the air and waves in the water. (Trans. I, n.66.)

                                                                                                                         SES – Sir Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 )

… in perfect and healthy brains and medullas, all things, with their component parts, are so diposed and ordered that nothing more disposed and more ordered can be concieved of in the whole of nature.

[…] If only they evolve visible phenomena to their causes, they will surely find nothing unarranged, nothing wandering in the chance of conflux, and without law.

… ; and hence in such a state that, of itself and its own nature, it knows what the soul is intending in the beginnings, and what she is doing in the extremes. 

A love of the truth

A love of the truth

" ... ; and that the worshippers of nature are insane . "

The Economy of The Animal Kingdom, part ii, chapter iii, section v, The Human Soul

259. […]

“ I confess however that while I am lingering on this threshold that conducts me almost beyond the bounds of nature, or while I am daring to speak of the unition of God with the souls of his creatures, I feel a certain holy trembling stealing over me, and warning me to pause; for the mind thinks it sees what it does not see, and sees where no intuition can penetrate; nor can it tell whether what it thinks enters in the a priori or a posteriori direction; if by the latter, life appears to be inherent; if by the former, it appears to be not inherent, or not essentially united to us. And what increases this awe is, a love of the truth, which that may hold in my mind the supreme place, is the end of all my endeavors, and which, whenever I deviate from it, converts itself into a represention of justice and condign punishment, or into that fear which an inferior being is wont to feel towards a superior; so that I would rather resign this subject into the hands of others more competent than myself. This alone I percieve most clearly, that the order of nature exists for the sake of ends, which flow through universal nature to return to the first end; and that the worshippers of nature are insane. “

                                                                                                                         SES – Sir Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 )

[…] This alone I percieve most clearly, that the order of nature exists for the sake of ends, which flow through universal nature to return to the first end; and that the worshippers of nature are insane. “