71. One unity alone being apparent in all nature, it is useless to talk of the duality of the viewer and view. A word with a masculine affix cannot give the sense of a neuter noun (so the masculine noun Intellectus, cannot apply to the neuter phenomenon).
72. The viewer who feasts his eyes with a view of the outer visible world, cannot have the sight of the inner soul with the internal eyes of his intellect; but when the viewer shuts out the outer view, all its realities appear as unreal.
73. When the viewer perceives the unreality of the visibles by the light of his understanding, he then comes to see the true reality. So by retracting the mind from viewing the figure of the jewel, one comes to see the nature of its gold only.
74. The visibles being present, there must be their viewers also to whose view they are apparent. It is the absence of both (the viewer and the view), and the knowledge of their unreality, that produce the belief of unity. (The disappearance of the visible, causes the withdrawal of the viewer; like the removal of the umbrella, drives away its shade).
75. The man who considers all things in the contriteness of his conscious soul, comes at last to perceive something in him, which is serenely clear, and which no words can express.
76. The minute particle of the intellect, shows us the sight of the soul as clearly as a lamp enlightens everything in the dark. (Answer to “who shows the soul as clearly as a visible thing”?)
77. The intelligent soul is absolved of its perceptions of the measure, measurer and measurables, (i.e. of the forms and properties of things), as liquid gold when dissolved of its form of an ornament. (Answer to “what thing is absolved of its properties like gold of its jewellery”).
78. As there is nothing which is not composed of the elementary bodies of earth, water &c.; so there is nothing in nature which is apart from the nature of the atomic intellect. (Answer to “what is that from which nothing is apart?”).
79. The thinking soul penetrates into all things in the form of their notions; and because all thoughts concentrate in the intellect, there is nothing apart from it.
80. Our desires being the parents of our wished for objects, they are the same with our prospects in our view: therefore there is no difference between our desires and desired objects; as there is none between the sea and its waves. (In refutation of the question, “what is that which is distinct from the wish?”).