these Limits and Signs by which we describe the Divine World are
sufficient, and dost not put that Sense upon my Words in which they are
commonly us'd[23], I shall give thee some farther Account of what _Hai
Ebn Yokdhan_ saw, when he was in the State of those who have attain'd to
the Truth, of which we have made Mention before, and it is thus;

§ 90. After he was wholly immers'd in the Speculation of these things,
and perfectly abstracted from all other Objects, and in the nearest
Approach[24]; he saw in the highest Sphere, beyond which there is no
_Body_, a Being free from Matter, which was not the Being of that _ONE,
TRUE ONE_, nor the Sphere itself, nor yet any thing different from them
both; but was like the Image of the Sun which appears in a well-polish'd
Looking-glass, which is neither the Sun nor the Looking-glass, and yet
not distinct from them. And he saw in the Essence of that separate
Sphere, such Perfection, Splendor and Beauty, as is too great to be
express'd by any Tongue, and too subtil to be cloath'd in Words; and he
perceiv'd that it was in the utmost Perfection of Delight and Joy,
Exultation and Gladness, by reason of its beholding that _TRUE_ Essence,
whose Glory be exalted,

§ 91. He saw also that the next Sphere to it, which is that of the Fixed
Stars, had an immaterial Essence, which was not the Essence of that
_TRUE ONE_, nor the Essence of that highest, separated Sphere, nor the
Sphere itself, and yet not different from these; but is like the Image
of the Sun which is reflected upon a Looking glass, from another Glass
placed opposite to the Sun; and he observ'd in this Essence also the
like Splendor, Beauty, Loveliness and Pleasure, which he had observ'd in
the Essence of the other highest Sphere. He saw likewise that the next
Sphere, which is the Sphere of _Saturn_, had an immaterial Essence,
which was none of those Essences he had seen before, nor yet different