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."
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."