which is on God the Creator, has parts that form its structure. The first
part of that chapter is on the oneness of God, the second on the underly-
ing divine reality or Jehovah, the third on the infinity of God, the fourth
on the essence of God, which is divine love and wisdom, the fifth on
God’s omnipotence, and the sixth on creation. Each of these parts is fur-
ther subdivided into points that form its structure. These points wrap up
the teachings they contain and form something like sheaves. These struc-
tures, on both the larger and the smaller scale, both jointly and separately,
contain truths that elevate and improve our faith depending on the quan-
tity of truths we have and on the bonds that exist between these truths.
[ 2 ] The human mind is structured. It is a spiritual organism that ter-
minates in a physical organism in which and according to which the
mind thinks or produces its ideas. People who do not know this cannot
help thinking that perceptions, thoughts, and ideas are just rays and vari-
ations of light flowing into their heads and creating forms that they see
and recognize as the thought process. This is ridiculous. As everyone
knows, our heads are full of brains, our brains are structured, our minds
live in them, and our ideas become fixed and permanent there as we
receive and reinforce these ideas.
The next question is, how is the mind organized? The answer is that all
its parts are arranged to form structures that are like fascicles of nerves. The
truths that constitute faith are also arranged this way in the human mind.
The truth of this can be illustrated by the following observations.
[ 3 ] The cerebrum consists of two substances. One of them is glandular;
it is called the cortex or gray-matter. The other is made of fibrils and is
called the medullary substance. The first of these two, the glandular
substance, is arranged in clusters like grapes on a vine. These clusters,
then, constitute the structure of the glandular substance. The other sub-
stance, the medullary one, consists of common bundles of fascicles of
individual nerve fibrils that come from the glands of the first substance.
These common bundles of nerve fascicles, then, constitute the structure
of the medullary substance.
All the nerves that come from the brain and go down into the body
to perform various functions there are nothing but sheaves and fascicles
of fibers. So are all muscles, and all the internal organs and other organs
of the body. All these parts have this form because they correspond to the
structures of the organism of the mind.
[ 4 ] Furthermore, absolutely everything in the whole of nature has a
structure that consists of common bundles of fascicles of fibers. Every tree,
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