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The Mystic Will

CHAPTER XI
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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.


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