Thus if I tore my hair, struck my forehead, or,
entwining my fingers, clasped my knee, these I did because I
willed it. But I might have willed it and still not have done it,
if the nerves had not obeyed my will. Many things then I did, in
which the will and power to do were not the same. Yet I did not
do that one thing which seemed to me infinitely more desirable,
which before long I should have power to will because shortly when
I willed, I would will with a single will. For in this, the power
of willing is the power of doing; and as yet I could not do it.
Thus my body more readily obeyed the slightest wish of the soul in
moving its limbs at the order of my mind than my soul obeyed
itself to accomplish in the will alone its great resolve.
CHAPTER IX
21. How can there be such a strange anomaly? And why is it?
Let thy mercy shine on me, that I may inquire and find an answer,
amid the dark labyrinth of human punishment and in the darkest
contritions of the sons of Adam. Whence such an anomaly? And why
should it be? The mind commands the body, and the body obeys.
The mind commands itself and is resisted.
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