miraculous and mysterious for its own sake, than his predecessors
in _occulta_, and limits his beliefs to proofs sustained by good
authority. He recognizes a second, or what he calls a subliminal Self,
the Spirit of our Soul, acting independently of Waking Conscious
Judgment, a mysterious _alter ego_, which has marvelous power.

This second or inner self I have also through this work of mine
recognized as a reality, though it is, like the self-conscious soul,
rather an aggregate than a distinct unity. Thus we may for convenience
sake speak of the Memory, when there are in fact millions of memories,
since every image stored away in the brain is one, and the faculty of
revising them for the use of the waking soul, is certainly apart from
the action of bringing them into play in dreams. In fact if we regard
the action of all known faculties, we might assume with the Egyptians
that man had not merely eight distinct souls, but eighty, or even a
countless number. And as the ancients, knowing very little about
mental action, classed it all as one soul, so we may call that which
is partially investigated and mysterious, a second or inner "soul,"
spirit, or subliminal self--that is to say provisionally, till more
familiar with its nature and relations.

DR. MASON, to his credit be it said, has not accepted for Gospel,
as certain French writers have done, the tricks of self-confessed
humbugs. He has only given us the cream of the most strictly attested
cases, as related by French scientists and people of unquestioned
veracity. And yet admitting that in every instance the witness
sincerely believed that he or she spoke the truth, the aggregate is so
far from confirming the tales told, that consideration and comparison
would induce very grave doubt. Thus, who could have been more sincere,
purely honest or pious than JUSTINUS KERNER, whom I knew personally,