Ii — The Gifts
Instinct is the fountain of Personal power, and mother of the Gifts. With instinct there may be an embryo, but sense must be superinduced to constitute an animal—memory, moral sentiment, reason, imagination, personality, to constitute the man. The mind is the man, not the outward shape: all is in the Will. The animal may mount to fancy in the grade of gifts; but reason, imagination, conscience, choice—the mediating, creative, ruling powers—the personality—belong to man alone. But not to all men, save in essence and possibility. Man properly traverses the hierarchy of Powers—spiritual, intellectual, moral, natural, animal—their full possession and interplay enabling him to hold free colloquy with all, giving the whole mind voice in the dialogue. Thus:
| Asking for | |||
| The Who? | Will | responds, | The Person. |
| The Ought? | Conscience | ″ | The Right. |
| The How? | Imagination | ″ | The Idea. |
| The Why? | Reason | ″ | The Truth. |
| The Thus? | Fancy | ″ | The Image. |
| The Where? | Understanding | ″ | The Fact. |
| The When? | Memory | ″ | The Event. |
| The Which? | Sense | ″ | The Thing. |
| The What? | Instinct | ″ | The Life. |
In accordance with this gradation of gifts, man and animals may be classified as to their measures of intelligence respectively; instinct being taken as the initial gift and prompter of the rest in their order of genesis, growth and adaptability: man alone, when fully unfolded in harmony, being capable of ranging throughout the entire scale.I
Thus:
| Class | |
| I. | Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason, Imagination, Conscience, Personality. |
| II. | Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason, Imagination, Conscience. |
| III. | Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason, Imagination. |
| IV. | Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason. |
| V. | Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy. |
| VI. | Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding. |
| VII. | Instinct, Sense, Memory. |
| VIII. | Instinct, Sense. |
| Man is | ||
| Spiritual as he | experiences | Personality, Thought |
| Moral | ″ | Choice, Conscience. |
| Intellectual | ″ | Imagination, Reason. |
| Natural | ″ | Fancy, Understanding. |
| Brute | ″ | Memory, Sense. |
| Demonic | ″ | Appetite, Passion. |
Nature does not contain the Personal man. He is the mind with the brute omitted, or, conversely, the animal transfigured and divinized by the Spirit. It is a slow process; long for the individual, longeval for the race. Centuries, millenniads elapse, mind meanwhile travailing with man, the birth arrested for the most part, or premature, the translation from germ to genius being supernatural, thought hardly delivered from spine and occiput into face and forehead, the mind uplifted and crowned in personality.
Pure mind alone is face,
Brute matter surface all;
As souls immersed in space,
Ideal rise, or idol fall.