the darkness of the dense accidents disperses from him time after time, until he rids himself from his material structure and becomes a subtle spiritual being, so he is attracted by the hylomorphic power ascending to where the resting place of his more splendid substance is, and if the wretchedness predominated over him and ignorance took possession over him and he plunged recklessly into evil, the subtle elements slipped away from him compelled by the material power little by little, until it becomes dense and dark, so it falls down by its density into the animal abyss, where the dense, dark element is.

Then he said: And there is not among the souls males and females, and as for the masculinization and the feminization, it is in the bodily structure only, so the spirit is born at one time a male and at another time a woman, according to the trials in which its embodiment passes, so if its embodiment in femininity is counted as a trial then it is a degradation and a retribution, so if this female entangled herself in evils and rejected good entirely, degradation alternates upon her, and likewise until she degrades gradually from the human rank to the animal rank.