Sec. 95.  But as for the Divine Essences and Heroick Spirits, they are all free from Body and all its Adherents, and remov’d from them at the utmost distance, nor have they any Connection, or Dependance upon them.  And the existing or not existing of Body is all one to them, for their sole Connection and Dependance is upon that ONE TRUE NECESSARY SELF-EXISTENT BEING, who is the first of them, and the Beginning of them, and the Cause of their Existence, and he perpetuates them and continues them for ever; nor do they want the Bodies, but the Bodies want them; for if they should perish, the Bodies would perish, because these Essences are the Principles of these Bodies.  In like manner, as if a Privation of that ONE TRUE BEING could be suppos’d (far be it from him, for there is no God but him) all these Essences would be remov’d together with him, and the Bodies too, and all the sensible World, because all these have a mutual Connection.

Sec. 96.  Now, tho’ the Sensible World follows the Divine World, as a Shadow does the Body, and the Divine World stands in no need of it, but is free from it, and independent of it, yet notwithstanding this, it is absurd to suppose a Possibility of its being annihilated, because it follows the Divine World:  But the Corruption of this World consists in its being chang’d, not annihilated.  And that glorious Book[27] spake, where there is no mention made of Moving the Mountains, and making them like the World, and Men like Fire-flyes, and darkning the Sun and Moon; and Eruption of the Sea, in that day when the Earth shall be chang’d into another Earth, and the Heavens likewise.  And this is the Substance of what I can hint to you at present, concerning what Hai Ebn Yokdhan saw, when in that glorious State.  Don’t expect that I should explain it any farther with Words, for that is even impossible.

Sec. 97.  But as for what concerns the finishing his History, that I shall tell you, God willing.  After his return to the sensible World, when he had been where we have told you, he loath’d this present Life, and most earnestly long’d for the Life to come; and he endeavour’d to return to the same State, by the same means he had sought it at first, till he attain’d to it with less trouble than he did at first, and continu’d in it the second time longer than at the first.  Then he return’d to the Sensible World; and then again endeavour’d to recover his Station, which he found easier than at the first and second time, and that he continu’d in it longer; and thus it grew easier and easier, and his Continuance in it longer and longer, time after, time, till at last he could attain it when he pleas’d, and stay in it as long as he pleas’d.  In this State he firmly kept himself, and never retir’d from it, but when the Necessities of his Body requir’d it, which he had brought into as narrow a Compass as was possible.  And whilst he was thus exercis’d, he us’d to with that it would please God to