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can then reorganise itself into new and distinct forms 

 and build up temporarily different and distinct organs 

 and tissues. 1 



In a word, we have been compelled to surrender to 

 the evidence, that the body, the organic complex, has 

 neither definitive and absolute qualities nor a specificity 

 proper to itself. Its origin, its development, its embryonic 

 and post-embryonic metamorphoses, its normal functions 

 and supernormal potentialities, the maintenance of its 

 normal form, and the possibilities of metapsychic 

 dematerialisation and re-materialisations, all show that 

 this organism is separable from a superior dynamism 

 which conditions it. 



It no longer appears as the whole individual, but as 

 an ideoplastic product of that which is essential in the 

 individual a dynamo-psychism which conditions all, 

 and essentially is all. 



In philosophic language, the organism is not the 

 individual; it is but his representation. 



By this concept all the physiology of the physical 

 being and all its normal or so-called supernormal 

 capacities can be understood; whereas, without this 

 concept the most familiar organic functions and the 

 most unexpected phenomena of mediumship are alike 

 mysterious. 



In reality there is neither normal nor supernormal 

 physiology. All is limited by representations; some 

 usual, some exceptional, both equally conditioned by the 

 essential dynamo-psychism which is the reality. If 

 embryonic metamorphoses and the histolysis of the 

 insect seem to us mysterious ; if the interpenetration of 

 solid matter by other solid matter, and organic materiali- 

 sations and dematerialisations seem impossible, this is 

 only because we attribute final reality to the characteristics 

 and properties by which we represent matter to our- 

 selves. If, on the contrary, we understand that these 



1 Vide Part I., Chapter II. 

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