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Fantasia of the Unconscious

CHAPTER XI
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The second business is to act as medium, as interpreter, as agent between the individual and his object.

The mind should _not_ act as a director or controller of the spontaneous centers.

These the soul alone must control: the soul being that forever unknowable reality which causes us to rise into being.

There is continual conflict between the soul, which is for ever sending forth incalculable impulses, and the psyche, which is conservative, and wishes to persist in its old motions, and the mind, which wishes to have "freedom," that is spasmodic, idea-driven control.

Mind, and conservative psyche, and the incalculable soul, these three are a trinity of powers in every human being.


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