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Seven Senses
Scared out of my seven senses. According to very ancient
teaching, the soul of man, or his “inward holy body,” is compounded of
the seven properties which are under the influence of the seven
planets. Fire animates, earth gives the sense of feeling, water gives
speech, air gives taste, mist gives sight, flowers give hearing, the
south wind gives smelling. Hence the seven senses are animation,
feeling, speech, taste, sight, hearing, and smelling. (See Common Sense.) (See Ecclesiastes xvii. 5.)
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