From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



Everything that is essential in the being the innate 

 faculties, the intellectual aptitudes, and the primordial 

 powers belong to this group. 



The central monad, the real Self, is the source and 

 principle of creative genius and inspiration. Its function 

 is to centralise and direct the psychological whole. It 

 ensures individual permanence in spite of the perpetual 

 renewal of states of consciousness during one life and 

 the changes of personality in successive lives. It retains 

 integrally the remembrance of all its acquisitions, and 

 assimilates them to itself. By this assimilation of past 

 states of consciousness, the consciousness which repre- 

 sents and synthetises all past realisations, develops 

 little by little. In it resides the whole of the latent 

 consciousness, made up of a vast mass of experiences, 

 acquisitions, and realisations. 



The mentality which the Self directs is made up 

 of states of consciousness not as yet assimilated, but 

 which it regulates and uses. There is in it an extensive 

 group of intellectual monads * elementary dynamo- 

 psychisms,' at a high evolutionary level and possessing 

 a marked degree of self-activity, autonomy, and individ- 

 ualisation. 



In the psychic whole these elements form secondary 

 groups determined by affinities and associations which 

 all tend to independence. Thus there are in the psychism 

 two constant currents the one centrifugal and decen- 

 tralising in its action, tending to anarchy or polyarchy; 

 and the other centripetal, tending to centralisation 

 and governance by the Self. 



The general grouping is determined by affinities; 

 the psychic elements which form a new being are grouped 

 by the tendencies and the aspirations which mark the 

 evolutionary level reached by the Self. 



We are here dealing with a primary fact, on which 

 special stress is to be laid, that the total psychism is 

 closely bound up with and limited by the cerebral 



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