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the partial function is acquired from its accidental
characteristics, variable situations and position. Don't you see
that if fire is accidentally displaced and departs from the body
and wood, it will return to its nature and to its place above air.
As for its simple total function, it is too great to be described or
realized by words because it is an exceptionally great force
which is above simplicity and above qualification and so are the
rest of the Elements.
The human being follows the same path. This is the human
being who is eternally committed and around whom the
complex human being is evolving. His intermingling and
mixing with other things which accidentally adjoin him in
different situations and positions, and from which he cannot
detach himself, changes his image, transforms him and grants
him common characteristics with animals, plants and other
Elements. Consequently, he becomes similar to them in all
aspects and when he recognizes this and follows the path that
leads him to the enlightenment of the first principle. This is a
system particular to his essence as well as to his own principle,
he will be more of a human being than others inasmuch as he
becomes detached. He can do that by applying virtues as much
as possible and when he accomplishes that, he becomes the
partial, sensitively perceptive, physical and robust human
being, who is composed of two sub-parts, the mind and the
spirit, in addition to the body. This joint perishable image in this
lower world is a shell for the whole, mental, spiritual,
honorable, kind, simple and primordial human being. It is the
pure image which is not engulfed by a body; it is ever-lasting in
the higher world.
The image of the whole human is within his partial image
and a simple and primordial form of it. The image of the partial
human is inside the body and a simple form of it. The image of
the body is a complex idol and a complex shell for the partial
human. The image of the partial human being is a complex idol
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