Of course in the spiritual life no organ _disappears_, but we must find out what would be the mode of operation of any organ in its spiritual counterpart. As I understand, the spiritual counterparts of the organs are _powers_, and not organs, as the eye is the power to see, the ear the power to hear, and so on. The generative organs would then become the creative power and perhaps the Will. You must not suppose that in the spirit life the organs are reproduced as we see them. One instance will suffice. One may see pictures in the astral light through the back of the head or the stomach. In neither place is there any eye, yet we see. It must be by the power of seeing, which in the material body needs the specialized place or specializing organ known as the eye. We hear often through the head without the aid of the auricular apparatus, which shows us that there is the power of hearing and of transmitting and receiving sounds without the aid of an external ear or its inside cerebral apparatus. So of course all these things survive in that way. Any other view is grossly material, leading to a deification of this unreal body, which is only an image of the reality, and a poor one at that. In thinking over these matters you ought always to keep in mind the three plain distinctions of _physical, psychical, and spiritual, always remembering that the last includes the other two_. All the astral things are of the psychical nature, which is partly material and therefore very deceptive. But all are necessary, for they are, they exist. The Deity is subject to this law, or rather it is the law of the Deity. The Deity desires experience or self-knowledge, which is only to be attained by stepping, so to say, aside from self. So the Deity produces the manifested universes consisting of matter, psychical nature, and spirit. In the Spirit alone resides the great consciousness of the whole; and so it goes on ever producing and drawing into Itself, accumulating such vast and enormous experiences that the pen falls down at the thought. How can that be put into language? It is impossible, for we at once are met with the thought that the Deity must know all at all times. Yet there is a vastness and an awe-inspiring influence in this thought of the Day and Night of Brahman. It is a thing to be thought over in the secret recesses of the heart, and not for discussion. _It is the All._ And now, my Brother, for the present I leave you. May your restored health enable you to do more work for the world. I salute you, my Brother, and wish you to reach the terrace of enlightenment. Z. [Footnote D: Through its negative or passive quality.--J. N.] _Letters That Have Helped Me_ Volume II LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME VOL. II COMPILED BY _THOMAS GREEN and JASPER NIEMAND_