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142"unity", not oneness It perceives the Universal by itself, and the particular through the external and the internal senses. It is the shadow of the Absolute Light, and like it manifests itself in various ways - comprehending multiplicity in its unity. There is no necessary relation between the spirit and the body. The former is non-temporal and non-spatial; hence it is changeless, and has the power of judging the visible multiplicity. In sleep the spirit uses the "ideal body" which functions like the physical body; in waking life it uses the ordinary physical body. It follows, therefore, that the spirit stands in need of neither, and uses both at will. Hadl does not follow Plato in his doctrine of transmigration, the different forms of which he refutes at length. The spirit to him is immortal, and reaches its original home - Absolute Light - by the gradual perfection of its faculties. The various stages of the development of reason are as follows: (a) Theoretical or Pure Reason Ist Potential Reason. 2nd Perception of self-evident propositions. 3rd Actual Reason. 4th Perception of universal concepts. (b) Practical Reason Ist External Purification. 2nd Internal Purification. 3rd Formation of various habits. 4th Union with God. Thus the spirit rises higher and higher in the scale of being, and finally shares in the eternity of the