"Mammassudi di pajanu,
Palletu di pajanu,
Majassu stigneta.
Pallettu di pajanu,
Pale la stagneta.
Mancata stigneta.
Pro nastu varitu pressu du
Visu, e da terra!"

Of which words Kircher declares that they are probably of mingled
corrupt Greek and ancient Sicilian, but that whatever they are, they
certainly are admirable for the catching of fish.

CHAPTER X.

THE SUBLIMINAL SELF.

While the previous pages of this work were in the press, I received
and read a very interesting and able Book, entitled, "Telepathy and
the Subliminal Self, or an account of recent investigations regarding
Hypnotism, Automatism, Dreams, Phantoms, and related phenomena," by R.
OSGOOD MASON, A.M., Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr.
MASON, on the whole, may be said to follow HARTMANN, since he places
Thaumaturgy, or working what have been considered as wonders,
miracles, and the deeds of spiritualists, on the evolutionary or
material basis. He is also far less superstitious or prone to seek the
miraculous and mysterious for its own sake, than his predecessors
in _occulta_, and limits his beliefs to proofs sustained by good
authority. He recognizes a second, or what he calls a subliminal Self,
the Spirit of our Soul, acting independently of Waking Conscious
Judgment, a mysterious _alter ego_, which has marvelous power.

This second or inner self I have also through this work of mine
recognized as a reality, though it is, like the self-conscious soul,
rather an aggregate than a distinct unity. Thus we may for convenience
sake speak of the Memory, when there are in fact millions of memories,
since every image stored away in the brain is one, and the faculty of
revising them for the use of the waking soul, is certainly apart from
the action of bringing them into play in dreams. In fact if we regard
the action of all known faculties, we might assume with the Egyptians
that man had not merely eight distinct souls, but eighty, or even a
countless number. And as the ancients, knowing very little about
mental action, classed it all as one soul, so we may call that which
is partially investigated and mysterious, a second or inner "soul,"
spirit, or subliminal self--that is to say provisionally, till more
familiar with its nature and relations.

DR. MASON, to his credit be it said, has not accepted for Gospel,
as certain French writers have done, the tricks of self-confessed
humbugs. He has only giv