of the body to pursue: sciences and their acquisition, and acts leading to felicity.
Likewise, had the heat of yellow bile adjoined it, it would have increased the quantity of yellow bile and he would have become ill. For this reason moisture was placed next to yellow bile.
He, exalted is He, then paired cold with moisture, and phlegm arose from this mixture. He placed phlegmatic moisture next to sanguine heat. Otherwise, as we mentioned earlier, illness and sickness would enter through an increase in that humor’s quantity.
He then paired cold with dryness, and black bile arose from this mixture. He placed black bile’s dryness next to phlegm’s moisture.
He did not place black bile’s cold next to it, lest it increase the quantity of phlegm’s moisture, for moisture is acted upon by cold.
When it lies between phlegm’s cold and black bile’s cold, it doubles and the quantity of phlegm increases, bringing illness and disease upon the body, for it is receptive to being acted upon.
Consider God’s wisdom in this constitution! This preserves the health of the body, the subtle reality’s mount, so it may convey it to what its Lord, Mighty and Majestic, has called it.
(The Mounts of Acts, Wages, and Lights)
The divine spirit takes possession of this bodily mount. When the spirit covers it, the mount conceives and produces acts: either righteous, which are formed,
