And since the religion of the Holy Spirit is the verification of gnoses and considerative realities, which has nothing to do with action, he could not have taken his brother, by urging him to practical things or using him for the [pursuit of] virtues, according to the king's law, since his religion is knowledge and his knowledge is rational comprehension, unless God willed, that is, at the moment of the illumination of the soul by the light of the heart that is derived from Him and of the expanding of the breast that is receptive of practical things, which is the raising of degrees [referred to], since the soul at that instance rises to the degree of the heart and the heart to the degree of the spirit at the station of presential vision; and above every possessor of knowledge, such as the faculties, is one who knows better, such as the practical intellect, above whom is the heart, above whom is the considerative intellect, above whom is the spirit, above whom is the Holy Spirit, and God, exalted be He, is above all, Knower of all Unseens.
