The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

"THE HUMAN SOULTheurgy evoked them and the Cabalakne^v them under the name of elementaryspirits. They were not spirits, however, forthey were mortal.They were fluidic coagulations whichcould be destroyed by being divided.Persons possessed by spectres were generallyexalted by a too rigorous celibacy orby debauchery.The fluidic phantoms are abortions ofvital light ; they are plastic mediators withoutbody and without spirit, born of theexcesses of the spiritof the body.and of the profligacyThese wandering mediators may bedrawn by certain ill people who are fatallysympathetic to them and who lend them attheir expense, a more or less durable artificialexistence. They then serve as supplementaryinstruments to the instinctivewill of these ill people, never once to curethem, but always to lead them astray anddelude them.96