Once soul turned towards
matter. She was in love and burned with desire to experience bodily pleasures
and wished no more to be separated from it, thus the world was born. From that
moment the soul forgot itself, its original dwelling, its true centre and
everlasting life. But God, unwilling to abandon the soul to its degradation
with matter, endowed her with understanding and the faculty of perception,
precious gifts that would remind her of its high origin,
the spiritual world
which would restore its consciousness to itself, teach that she was a stranger
here below…as soon as the soul has just been taught by perception and
understanding, as soon as she has regained self-consciousness She longs for the
Spiritual world, as a man exiled in a strange land sighs for his distant
homestead. The soul is convinced that to regain itself she must loose itself
from the ties of this world, from carnal concupiscence’s; from all material
things…thus the book describes the descent of the soul and then its return to
the spiritual world.
