Contents

1. The Quest for the Mind
2. The Mind and the Brain
3. The Sensual Degree of the Mind
   • The Corporeal and the Sensual
   • The Scientific and the External Memory
4. The Formation of the Memory
5. Memory and Imagination
6. The Rational Mind
   • The "Pure Intellect"
   • The Rational Mind
   • Formation of the Rational Mind
7. Human Thought and its Discipline
   • Mental Digestion
   • The Use of Abstractions
8. Types and Degrees of the Rational Mind
   • Abuse of the Rational
   • Degrees of the Rational
9. Relation of the Natural Mind to the Celestial and Spiritual Degrees
   • Beyond Consciousness
   • Degrees within the Memory
   • Supersensible Thought
   •  Opening of the Spiritual Mind
   • Reformation of the Natural Mind
   • Liberation of the Natural Mind
10. The Natural Mind after Death
    • Spiritual Sensation
    • The Interior Memory
    • The Natural Minds of Angels
    • Degrees of the Angelic Mind
    • The Inmost, or the Human Internal

Appendices:

1. The various usages of the term "Soul" in the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
2. Association of Ideas in the Memory.

Diagrams:

1. General Degrees of the Human Mind
2. Swedenborg's Concept of the Cortical Gland
3. Mental Degrees, suggested in the RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY