Matter gives the body, the blood, the flesh; but spirit gives hearing, sight ,feeling, touch, and taste
"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)
