"For the above mentioned senses have each their own body, imperceptible, impalpable, just as the root of the body, on the other hand, exists in a tangible form. For man is made up of two portions, that is to say, of a material and a spiritual body. Matter gives the body, the blood, the flesh; but spirit gives hearing, sight ,feeling, touch, and taste. When, therefore, a man is born deaf, this happens from a defect of the domicile (material) in which hearing should be quartered. For the spiritual body does not complete its work in a situation which is badly disposed. Herein, then, are recognised the mighty things of God, that there are two bodies, an eternal and a corporeal, enclosed in one, as is made clear in the Generation of Men." - The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus (1493 -1541)
