tells us that this is possible: “The common mind is worldly and changing … because nature changes it.”25 Further on he writes, “If the soul doesn’t have a good mind and good conduct it is blind and doesn’t know God the Creator and Benefactor of all,”26 or “The soul (in other words the mind), if it descends into the body, immediately is darkened by sadness and pleasure and is lost.”27 We said that the world has attracted and attracts [our] sense perception, and through it, the mind too, by its perceptible,
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