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The Ens Spirittcale is the WUl. The power of the 

 true spiritual Will is known very little, because it is 

 attained by very few. In our present civilisation, men 

 of strong, determined, and enlightened Will are few and 

 far between ; men and women are ruled to a great extent 

 by their instincts and desires, and have not sufficient will- 

 power to rise above and control them. 



" The Ens Spirituale is a power which may affect the 

 whole body and produce or cure all kinds of diseases ; it 

 is neither an angel nor a devil, but it is a spiritual power 

 which in the living body is born from our thoughts." 



" There are two principles active in man ; one is 

 the principle of Matter^ which constitutes the corporeal 

 visible body ; the other one is the Spirit, intangible and 

 invisible, and the spiritual principle may be vitiated 

 and diseased as well as the body, and transmit its 

 diseases to the body. The Ens astrale, veneni, and 

 naturale act upon the body, but the Ens spiriticale 

 and deale belong to the spirit ; if the body suffers, the 

 spirit need not suffer ; but if the spirit suffers the 

 body suffers ; the body cannot live without the spirit, 

 but the spirit is not confined by the body, and there- 

 fore is independent of it. The spirit in man sustains 

 the body as the air supplies him with life; it is sub- 

 stantial, visible, tangible, and perceptible to other 

 spiritual entities, and spiritual beings stand to each 

 other in the same relationship as one corporeal being 

 to another. I have a spirit and you have one, and 

 our spirits communicate with each other in the same 

 sense as our bodies ; but while we need language to 

 understand each other, our spirits understand each 

 other without using words. If one spirit is angry at 

 another it may injure him, and the injury received 

 be transmitted upon his body. Spirits harmonise and 

 associate with each other, or they repel or injure one 

 another. Spirits are not born from the intellect, but 

 from the soul, for the soul is the substance of life. 



