Contrast The Experience With Something Worse And

Divine Providence Is Connected With Divine Intellectual Influence, And The Same Beings Which Are Benefited By The Latter So As To Become Intellectual, And To Comprehend Things Comprehensible To Rational Beings, Are Also Under The Control Of Divine Providence, Which Examines All Their Deeds With A View Of Rewarding Or Punishing Them. ...the Method Of Which Our Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding.

The Soul Is Subject To Health And Disease, Just As Is The Body. The Health And Disease Of Both . . . Undoubtedly Depend Upon Beliefs And Customs, Which Are Peculiar To Mankind.

Lose With Truth And Right Rather Than Gain With Falsehood And Wrong.

The People Who Are Abroad Are All Those That Have No Religion, Neither One Based On Speculation Nor One Received By Tradition. Such Are The Extreme Turks That Wander About In The North, The Kushites Who Live In The South, And Those In Our Country Who Are Like These. I Consider These As Irrational Beings, And Not As Human Beings; They Are Below Mankind, But Above Monkeys, Since They Have The Form And Shape Of Man, And A Mental Faculty Above That Of The Monkey.

In So Far As The Soul Is A Force Residing In The Body; It Has Therefore Been Said That The Properties Of The Soul Depend Of The Condition Of The Body.