[The last two extracts tacitly refer to the following Sûfî classification of the human constitution:—
1. The Body (Tan), the brain-consciousness, or intellect, correlated to the physical plane (Nâsût).
2. The Heart (Dil), the desires and the lower mind, correlated to the astral and lower mental planes (Malakût).
3. The Soul (Rûh), the higher mind, the Ego, correlated to the higher mental plane (Jabarût).
4. The Spirit (Sirr, or the Mystery), correlated to the spiritual planes (Lâhût)—Trs.]
On the Same.
[The following supplementary notes from The Series of 28 Letters may prove both instructive and interesting.—Trs.]
You say you hear certain words, but not from the organ of speech, or through the organ of sound. Speech and Sound belong to this world: what you hear belongs to Malakût.—Loc. cit., Letter 10.