55. An analysis of the human body and its subjective functions discloses three main factors in the economy of human existence :-
- The human frame and the appended senses, composed of solid, liquid, gaseous, calorific, and ethereal conditions of matter, together with the non-intelligent forces of nature, generated by the action of energy, through the medium peculiar to each.
- The mind associated with antahkaran (internal constitution) consisting of four functions, viz.. (a) responses at the mental plane, which give rise to thought : (b) the spiritual or the attention-currents, by means of which thoughts are projected to their objectives and are associated with them : (c) intelligence, which is the sources of comprehension and which is the lustre shed by the convergence of the spiritual current : and (d) the ego, which differentiates its comprehension from that of others.
- The spirit-force, which gives vitality to the other two main factors and without the help of which the other two factors would remain dormant and inoperative.
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