And from the beliefs of the Chinese: how numerous is the number of the celestial angels, for they are around us right and left, we want to see them but we are not able due to the subtleness of their substance and its delicacy, verily the pious spirits join them, as for the evil spirits they hesitate by the imprisonment of the materials.

And from the teachings of the Egyptians: as for the soul of man, then its portion is upon two faces: the first is its imprisonment in matter, and the second is its ascent to the light, the evil, low souls remain attached in the earth by the chains of successive re-embodiments, and as for the virtuous souls they throw themselves flying to the lofty celestial spheres to enjoy the sight of the divinities and become they themselves luminous due to their possession of the divine light in their substance and their actions, indeed the souls are daughters of heaven.

[210] And the opinion of Plato, peace is upon him, in the moral punishment, for the virtuous soul when it is punished is purified from the impurities of sin and returns to resume its righteous, ascending life which joins it with the souls of the choice ones and ascends by it to its first resting place in the Highest Assembly,