And when Moses said to his lad: the exoteric aspect of this is what is related in the stories of the prophets (qiṣaṣ) and there is no way of denying the miracles. As for its esoteric aspect, that is to say the following: and when Moses-the-Heart, said to his lad-the-Soul at the moment of its attachment to the body, 'I will not give up, that is, I will not cease to march and journey, or, I will continue to march, until I have reached the juncture of the two seas, the meeting-point of the two worlds, the world of the spirit and the world of the body, which constitute the sweet and the salty within the form of mankind and at the station of the heart, though I march on for ages', that is, [though] I march for a long time.
