|  | FIVE PHYSICAL AND FIVE SPIRITUAL POWERS | 
	| 1 | In man five outer powers exist, which are the agents of perception, 
that is to say, through these five powers man perceives 
material beings.  These are sight, which perceives visible forms; 
hearing, which perceives audible sounds; smell, which perceives 
odors; taste, which perceives foods; and feeling, which is in all 
parts of the body, and perceives tangible things.  These five powers 
perceive outward existences. | 
	| 2 | Man has also spiritual powers:  imagination, which conceives 
things; thought, which reflects upon realities; comprehension, 
which comprehends realities, memory, which retains whatever man 
imagines, thinks, and comprehends.  The intermediary between 
the five outward powers and the inward powers, is the sense which 
they possess in common, that is to say, the sense which acts between 
the outer and inner powers, conveys to the inward powers 
whatever the outer powers discern.  It is termed the common 
faculty, because it communicates between the outward and 
inward powers, and thus is common to the outward and inward 
powers. | 
	| 3 | For instance, sight is one of the outer powers; it sees and perceives 
this flower, and conveys this perception to the inner power
--the common faculty--which transmits this perception to the 
power of imagination, which in its turn conceives and forms this 
image and transmits it to the power of thought; the power of 
thought reflects, and having grasped the reality, conveys it to the 
power of comprehension; the comprehension, when it has comprehended 
it, delivers the image of the object perceived to the 
memory, and the memory keeps it in its repository. | 
	| 4 | The outward powers are five:  the power of sight, of hearing, 
of taste, of smell, and of feeling. | 
	| 5 | The inner powers are also five:  the common faculty, and the 
powers of imagination, thought, comprehension, and memory. |