71. When reason takes the place of the want of reason, it introduces in a moment the light of knowledge in the soul, in lieu of its former darkness.
72. As reason advances, your want of reason and knowledge and your bondage to prejudice, are put to flight; and then you have an unobstructed liberation and pure understanding in this world.
73. As long as you had remained without reasoning on this subject, so long were you either dormant or wandering in error.
74. You are awakened from this day both to your reason and liberation, and the seeds for the suppression of your desires, are sown in your heart.
75. At first neither was this visible world presented to you nor you to it, how long will you therefore reside in it, and what other desires have you herein?
76. Withdraw your mind from its thoughts of the visitor, visibles and vision of this world, and settle it in the idea of the entire negation of all existence, then fix your meditation solely in the supreme Being, and sit in a state of unalterable insensibility (by forgetting yourself to a stone).
77. When the seed of inappetency has taken root in your heart, and begun to germinate in it, the sprouts of your affections and hatred (literally—pathos and apathy), will be destroyed of themselves.
78. Then the impression of the world will be utterly effaced from the mind, and an unshaken anesthesia will overtake you all at once.
79. Remaining thus entranced in your abstract meditation, you will have in process of time a soul, as luminous as a luminary in the clear firmament of heaven, freed from the concatenation of all causes and their consequences for evermore.