The universal distinction among spirits is between those who are spiritual and those who are heavenly. Then there are intermediate differences. Every part or internal organ of the body is like this. In each and every one there are its own proper tissues, which come forth from the blood vessels in different ways. So, for example, in the eye: the vitreous humor is (I assume) cortical substance, but not striated. In the crystalline lens there are striae, but rather hard ones. There are striae in other internal organs likewise [see 1058]. In the intestines are similar striae in their tunics, where there are labyrinthine, winding vessels; and elsewhere besides. The very capillaries, as they are called,** also derive their nature from those beginnings, so they reflect the beginning in their every point. This is true also of the spiritual quality, or reasoning power: if the beginning is not thus continued in them so that they are extensions of the beginnings,*** then the spiritual quality is of no importance or use; it becomes numb, and disjoined, not to mention many other consequences. 1748, 28 February. * In the index at Cerebrum and Fibra, this paragraph is summarized as follows: "The origins of the tissues in the brains and individual internal organs relate to heavenly qualities, and the tissues themselves to spiritual qualities." ** The Latin is capilli, "hairs." *** I. e., the cortical substances; see 1059.