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colour, taste, and odour; and each of these being both celestial' and 'non-celestial,' the objects 'to be illumined' also become tenfold.
(171) A further subdivision of the thirteen organs is next stated:
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The internal organs are three; and the external, ten, The organs num- exhibiting objects to the former three. bered and the difference betThe external organs act at the preween the external sent time and the internal at all the and internal in point of time three points of time.
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(172) The internal organs are three:" (1) Mind, (2) I-principle and (3) Will; these are called internal because located inside the body.
(173) The external-organs are ten; viz., the ten senseorgans. These latter exhibit objects to the three internal organs; i. e., they supply the means for observation, selfconsciousness and determination regarding objects;-the senseorgans doing this through perception, and the motor-organs, through their respective fuctions.
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(174) The author next states a further point of difference between the internal and external organs. senses acting at The external organs act at the present time present; the time." The internal with rehere includes also ference to all the time closely preceding and following the three divisions of immediate present; so that, Speech* also pertains to the present. 'The internal
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*The special qualification is necessary for the case of Speech, because no two letters can be pronounced at the same moment, and, as such, no word could be uttered at the present if by this were meant the present moment only. This difficulty, however, is avoided by counting a few moments before and after the present moment as • present.
