CHAPTER XI.

PARACELSUS.

That our ordinary consciousness or Waking Intellect, and what is
generally recognized as Mind or Soul, includes whatever has been taken
in by sensation and reflection and assimilated to daily wants, or
shows itself in bad or good memories and thought, is evident. Not
less clear is it that there is another hidden Self--a power which,
recognizing much which is evil in the Mind, would fain reject, or
rule, or subdue it. This latent, inner Intelligence calls into action
the Will. All of this is vague, and, it may be, unscientific. It is
more rational to believe in many faculties or functions, but the
classification here suggested may serve as a basis. It is effectively
that of GRASSNER, or of all who have recognized the power of the Will
to work "miracles," guided by a higher morality. And it is very
curious that PARACELSUS based his whole system of nervous cure, at
least, on this theory. Thus, in the _Liber Entium Morborum, de Ente
Spirituali_, chap, iii, he writes:

"As we have shown that there are two _Subjecta_, this will we assume
as our ground. Ye know that there is in the Body a Soul. (_Geist_.)
Now reflect, to what purpose? Just that it may sustain life, even as
the air keeps animals from dying for want of breath. So we know what
the soul is. This soul in Man is actually clear, intelligible and
sensible to the other soul, and, classing them, they are to be
regarded as allied, even as bodies are. I have a soul--the _other_
hath also one."