From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



unconscious by pouring into it the stream of psycho- 

 logical acquisitions. Finally, these acquisitions, once 

 conscious and now become subconscious, may, under 

 favourable conditions, re-emerge into consciousness. 



What are we to conclude ? Simply this: 



That which we in daily experience call * conscious- 

 ness ' is but a part of the conscious the part immediately 

 accessible within the given limits of time and space; 

 but a large part of the conscious normally remains 

 latent. 



That which we in daily experience call * unconscious- 

 ness ' is but a part of the unconscious, of the true 

 unconscious that which remains inaccessible and 

 unfathomable. The greater part of the unconscious 

 rises daily into consciousness; it makes that conscious- 

 ness and directs it. It is not even occult, it is merely 

 anonymous : its activity from day to day is constant and 

 cryptoid. 



From this point our demonstration will proceed 

 easily. 



2. THE UNCONSCIOUS OR SUBCONSCIOUS DYNAMO- 



PSYCHISM TENDS TO BECOME A CONSCIOUS DYNAMO- 

 PSYCHISM 



The leading proposition may be established by a 

 reasoned study of the individual psychism. 



Analysis of the higher subconsciousness permits us 

 to distinguish in it two main categories of powers and 

 knowledge. 



(a) The first category has no analogy in conscious 

 powers and conscious knowledge. It includes 

 the so-called supernormal faculties, which are 

 creative and are able to bring to the living being 

 knowledge independently of his habitual means 

 of cognisance and understanding. 

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