wings (Isa. 6:2); after six days the Lord called Moses from the midst of the cloud (Exod. 24:16); and after six days, as is said in Matthew, Christ led his disciples up a mountain and was transfigured before them (Matt. 17:1–2). 6. Just as there are six stages in the ascent into God, there are six stages in the powers of the soul, through which we ascend from the lowest to the highest, from the exterior to the interior, from the temporal to the eternal. These are the senses, imagination, reason,