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expression of that form, you are a product of your Divine Creator. The mineral and elemental part of your being has been endowed with four avenues, or senses, through which it expresses in what you call a physical manifestation. Intelligence or divinity expresses through every cell of the entire form which you have labeled physical. ?The four senses to which | have just referred are sight, hearing, taste and smell. at a ee a es Observe that | did not mention the sense you on Earth speak of as ?touch.? Because touch is the intelligence that precedes all others. ?Let me explain it this way. No one in any world can build a form like yours, or cause it to live as do you. This can be done only by the Creator of the Universe. Therefore, you must admit that when conception of a form takes place within a form, that mother-to-be knows not what is to be done for the perfect construction of another body. Yet the conception grows toward a complete manifestation, until finally it is born into what you call the physical world. 2When it is born, this form complete has eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The eyes see, and the ears hear sounds for the first time; the nose smells and the palate tastes for the first time. These were all created as parts of the body. As the body witnesses the physical world for the first time, so do these four avenues of expression, for they are of the body. Yet the mother of this form knew not how it was built. ?But the sense of touch, which | omitted from the group of senses, did know. For remember, while the little one was still in the building process within the mother?s body, if a pressure was put onto the mother?s body, the body within was also alerted to that pressure. And notice the separation between the two, for when the body to be born was ready to make a change within the mother, the mother neither controlled nor instructed this action, which does separate, in this case, the sensation into two distinct reactions?the mother?s and the child?s. This proves that each operates in the field of sensation or feeling independent of the other. Yet they arc a body within a body. Also proving that this thing called ?touch? or ?feeling? is acting in the field of intelligence, knowing what to do and when to do it. It seems to be the ?knower.? 2When we take this into consideration for the purpose of analyzing, the sense of touch is recognized as a cardinal one, or in reality the soul of the body?part of the all-inclusive intelligence. For it is a feeling?and feeling, as you know it, is a state of alertness, or conscious consciousness as we know it. ?Now, when this consciousness leaves the body of minerals and earth known as man, the eyes, the ears, the taste and the smell no longer function. For when the body becomes unconscious it does not recognize anything like a touch. In other words, you could beat that body and it would not have the sensation which is called feeling or of being touched. 2On the other hand, if one loses the eyes, loses the hearing, the taste and the smell, but retains the sense of touch, which is consciousness, one is more or less alive and intelligently operating. And when the body is then struck with something, it feels that touch or hurt, where it did not in the previous state.