Through this, the soul acquires the luminous, shining Intellect and the enduring knowledge, which is Wisdom and the realization of the realities of things.
The soul only descended to it 1 to learn and to be tested. Whosoever enters a place among places to learn, to be tested, and to know its condition, yet abandons knowledge, investigation, and trial—becoming preoccupied with bliss and pleasure—has squandered his quest and forgotten the purpose for which he set out.
I have expounded this to you, O soul, so that you may not be in the rank of those who disparage the world when they are indignant with it, nor among those who praise it when they are pleased with it. In truth, they are neither disparagers nor praisers, but are lost and astray. They have squandered their quest, forgotten their purpose, and the use of their faculties has gone to waste; they are neither realized in knowledge nor have they acquired certainty.
O soul: This world is but an abode of knowledge, investigation, and trial for those who contemplate. Therefore, contemplate, O soul, all its meanings, forms, craftsmanship, and configurations—the sensory, flowing, vanishing, and perishing accidents and individuals. Know that these are but representations of the true forms, and of the essential, eternal, and enduring configurations.