29. As the universe is the reflexion of the divine mind, so are infinity and eternity but representations of himself.
30. Attend to what I tell you about the manner in which we form the idea of time, and its distinct parts of a moment and an age, in the same way as we make the distinction of individualities in me, thee and this or that person (which are essentially the same undivided spirit and duration).[14]
SECTION II.
State of the Human soul after death.
31. Hear now, that no sooner does any one come to feel the insensibility consequent to his death, than he forgets his former nature and thinks himself as another being.
32. He then assumes an empty form in the womb of vacuity in the twinkling of an eye, and being contained in that container, he thinks within himself in the same receptacle.
33. “This is my body with its hands and feet.” Thus the body he thinks upon, he finds the same presented before him.
34. He then thinks in himself: “I am the son of this father and am so many years old; these are my dear friends and this is my pleasant abode.”
35. “I was born and became a boy, and then grew up to this age. There are all my friends and in the same course of their lives.”
36. Thus the compact density of the sphere of his soul, presents him many other figures, which appear to rise in it as in some part of the world.
37. But they neither rise nor remain in the soul itself, which is as transparent as the empty air; they appear to the intellect as a vision seen in a dream.