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"For example... you say, 'such an individual made great progress,' though he is remaining in the same place; or again, 'such an one's position was exalted,' although, like everyone else, he walks upon the earth. This exaltation and this progress are spiritual states and intellectual realities; but to explain them you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures. (6:2) "So the symbol of knowledge is light, and of ignorance, darkness... now that light of knowledge, and that darkness of ignorance, are intellectual realities, not sensible ones; but when we seek for explanations in the external world, we are obliged to give them sensible form." (Saq 95- 7)
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