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THE TRUTH
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14-MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION
Sensory filaments extend from the perceptive centres in the brain to the central organ of the mind. Here they come in contact with the soul in its most sensitive aspect. Motor nerves, too, have their terminals placed in the central organ of the mind.
Complex groupings take place in these nerve terminals. Both the sensory and motor nerves form different combinations, among themselves. The groups are ranged after the manner of an operating or key-board. There are in all eight such operating boards, namely, one each for the five senses, one for memory and reproduction, one for voluntary motion, and one for creative imagination.
The groupings of the nerve-terminals are formed in the course of experience, and proficiency in their use is acquired by practice.
Thus equipped, the soul in office is able to attend to the outside world with considerable ease. It learns the nature of things through the instrumentality of its senses; and it places itself bodily in touch with the external nature by means of the movements of its limbs, which it initiates, at will, through the operating board of motor mechanisms.
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