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In animals of the higher classes of organic life, as the verte- 

 brata, where the brain faculties are more developed, the reflexi- 

 bility and the susceptibility are becoming more expanded in power 

 of conception. That is to say, that the manifestation of vital 

 powers and plastical energies, growth of the body, food and the 

 spontaneous principles of generation will create similar ideas, 

 respectively, figurative thought forms within the introspective 

 periphery; and, according to the intensity of this vital manifesta- 

 tion, thus created ideas are becoming equally intensified emo- 

 tionally in their motivation ; because every idea contributes a part 

 to the individual existence an increase of individuality, which is 

 the emotional desire of the transcendental entity (the soul), respec- 

 tively, the "ego." 



Now, though animals of the vertebrate order exhibit more 

 positive brain faculties in relation to their specie, and as these 

 faculties are based upon the postulates of sensation (external 

 senses), the mind is yet a more objective-positive phase of intel- 

 lect, put in a condition of dual (double) efficiency. 



The mind of the higher animal, representing and manifest- 

 ing a more positive super-consciousness, perceives the impres- 

 sions from the external world through the senses, and also at the 

 same time the inductive impression from the instinctive ideas 

 from within, the transcendental center. The mind of such an 

 animal is becoming simultaneously conscious of impressions from 

 both directions, from within and from the outside. 



The mind exhibits in this state of dual perceptibility merely 

 a double-phased consciousness; one form, facing the exterior 

 world, dealing with sensation, may be termed the positive or super- 

 consciousness ; the other form, facing inward to the innate world, 

 the center of transcendental individuality, may be termed the 

 passive consciousness or sub-consciousness. 



Now, as I have pointed out before, the more the mind indulges 

 in objective speculations (as man), the less is the mind suscepti- 

 ble and less conscious of the innate (transcendental) manifesta- 

 tions ; on the other hand, the less the mind is engaged in mental 

 activity, the more he is susceptible and conscious of the innate 

 transcendental movements. Hence, an animal, even of higher 

 order, is, according to the lacking of positive speculative mental 



