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adjunct in the manner already explained. The diseases of re-collection would thus have a two-fold character; they would either arise from the inability of attention to be thrown back into a particular type of tone or rhythm, or the lesion of the memory centres in the brain would prevent the internal stimulus from robing itself in a sensory garb. But this does not mean that memory is altogether immaterial. That hypothesis would be as absurd as that which makes it out to be a pure product of the matter of the brain. All samskaras (impressions) are material in nature, no exception being made even in the case of those formed from the data of the senses other than sight. There are constant streams of vibrations impinging on the senses from without, so that there is nothing surprising in the fact that some of this fine material should be utilized for the formation of memory. Incleed, the surprise would be all the other way, should it be urged that a memory impress is devoid of all materiality whatsoever. As said in the Key of Knowledge, memory is a faculty which pertains nether to pure spirit nor to pure matter, but to a soul vitiated by the absorption of matter. For pure spirit is endowed with omniscience, which is inconsistent with limited knowledge like recollection ; and matter is unconscious, hence devoid of memory.
I shall now pass on to a further consideration of the important attributes of the soul.
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