The very existence of ideas constitutes the Soul[95].
S.
Consciousness[96], perception, existence of ideas, seem to be all one.
Consult, ransack yr understanding. Wt find you there besides several perceptions or thoughts? Wt mean you by the word mind? You must mean something that you perceive, or yt you do not perceive. A thing not perceived is a contradiction. To mean (also) a thing you do not perceive is a contradiction. We are in all this matter strangely abused by words.
Mind is a congeries of perceptions[97]. Take away perceptions [pg 028] and you take away the mind. Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
Say you, the mind is not the perception, not that thing which perceives. I answer, you are abused by the words “that a thing.” These are vague and empty words with us.
S.
The having ideas is not the same thing with perception. A man may have ideas when he only imagines. But then this imagination presupposeth perception.
M.