6815. In order to uncover the secrets of this cooperation [i.e. of the outer faculties with the inner ones, WE 6805 ff.], one must be aware of the following fact regarding the perfect person, Who the Messiah Alone was: Into the spiritual regions of His Mind, not only inward elements of nature were drawn up, but even outward elements of nature, such as takes place in the body so that life continues (as in the lung, the heart, the liver, the spleen, the brain - but these facts should not be mentioned, because they are as yet unfamiliar, and would therefore be more confusing than enlightening). At the same time that ideas are rushing in from the memory or lower mind, they are also rushing in from the senses into the understanding, and from the blood into its will. Only in the perfect person do the elements coming from bodily sensations, etc., cause the person continuance of life and constant purification. In the imperfect person, however, if those latter elements should rush in at the same time, they would bring on death, thus extinguishing the person's life. This is the reason why physical elements can in no wise be admitted, but must come to rest, as long as inner elements are active, and the reverse. These facts I have also been allowed, by the Divine [Outer; Inward]