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‘ Others,’ i.e. men of understanding who assert that God is
known by logical demonstration.
8. ‘ Transports from the rank of humanit3^’ i.e. to the next
world, in wliich tlie disembodied .spirits assume different
forms ( .yJl ^
9. ‘ Tlie filth which is in the tanks,’ i.e. the impurity and
darkness of nature in the corporeal world.
11. Cf. Ivor. X X , 4, and the Tradition that God, before He
created the Throne, was in a dense cloud, and neither above
it nor beneath it was any air.

XLV

1. The loved ones of my heart— where are thej’^? Say, bj^
God, where are they ?
2. As thou sawest their apparition, wilt thou show to me
their I'eality ?
3. How lonsr, how long was I seekincr them ! and how often
o ’ o o
did I beg to be united with them,
4. Until I had no fear of being parted from them, and j’et
I feared to be amongst them.
5. Perchance my happy star will hinder their going afar
from me,
6. That mine eye may be blest with them, and that I may
not ask, ‘ Where are they ? ’
C o m m e n ta r y
1. ‘ The loved ones,’ i.e. the sublime spirits.
2. ‘ Their apparition,’ i.e. their manifestation in the world
should consume me.
of similitude.
4. ‘ I feared to be amongst them,’ i.e. lest their radiance

5. ‘ My hapjiy star,’ i.e. the Divine favour predestined
to me.
XLVI
1. There is a war of love between the entrails and the larcje
eyes, and because of that war the heart is in \Voe.
2. Dark-lipped and swart is she, her mouth honeyed: the