or weighing. It rose to God, asking Him to judge between it and the spiritual balance, and between it and the spirit directed toward it through the luminous spiritual marriage for the appearance of natural bodies and individual human and nonhuman spirits.
(Spirits of Glorification and Spirits of Governance)
Every body within the world, restricted by a form, has a divine spirit accompanying that form, through which it glorifies God. Some spirits govern that form because it accepts spirits’ governance: every form characterized by outward life and death. If it lacks outward life and death, its spirit is a spirit of glorification, not a spirit of governance[3].
When a natural form receptive to governance appears, and an individual self governing it appears for it, the form is like the female and the spirit governing it like the male. The form is its wife, and the spirit the form’s husband.
These individual spirits differ in knowledge of things. Some know many things, others few. None knows God better than the spirits of forms without a share in governance because their form does not accept this: the spirits of the inanimate. Below them in knowledge
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(He distinguishes here the spirit of glorification accompanying every form from the spirit governing the form that receives outward life and death.)
