The Mystic Will - A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Charles Godfrey Leland
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page 124 of 134 (92%)
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PARACELSUS is here very obscure, but he manifestly means by "the
other," the Body. To resume: "The Souls know one another as 'I,' and 'the other.' They converse together in their language, not by necessity according to our thoughts, but what _they_ will. And note, too, that there may be anger between them, and one may belittle or injure the other; this injury is in the Soul, the Soul in the body. Then the body suffers and is ill-- not materially or from a material _Ens_, but from the Soul. For this we need spiritual remedy. Ye are two who are dear unto one another; great in affinity. The cause is not in the body, nor is it from without; it comes from your souls (_Geisten_), who are allied. The same pair may become inimical, or remain so. And that ye may understand a cause for this, note that the Spirit (_Geist_) of the Reasoning Faculty (_Vernunft_) is not born, save from the _Will_, therefore the Will and the Reason are separate. What exists and acts according to the Will lives in the Spirit; what only according to the Reason lives against the Spirit. For the Reason brings forth no spirit, only the Soul (_Seel_) is born of it--from Will comes the Spirit, the essence of which we describe and let the Soul be." In this grandly conceived but most carelessly written passage the author, in the beginning thereof, makes such confusion in expressing both Soul and Spirit with the one word, _Geist_, that his real meaning could not be intelligible to the reader who had not already mastered the theory. But, in fact, the whole conception is marvelous, and closely agreeing with the latest discoveries in Science, while ignoring all the old psychological system. Very significant is what PARACELSUS declares in his _Fragmenta |
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