8 the other faculties all of them mute, but memory, understanding, and will 84 in action far more than before acute. Without a stop, it falls of itself, marvellously, to one of the banks. 87 Here it first knows its own roads. Soon as the place there circumscribes it, the formative virtue rays out around it, 90 in like shape and size, as in the living members. And as the air when it is full of rain, by reason of the rays of another which are reflected in it, 93 with divers colors becomes adorned, so here the neighboring air shapes itself in that form which imprints upon it 96 virtually the soul that has stopped. And then like the flamelet which follows the fire whithersoever it shifts, 99 so does follow the spirit its new form. Since thereafter it has its aspect from this, it is called a shade; and thence it organizes 102 every sense even to the sight; thence we speak, and thence we laugh, thence we make the tears and the sighs, 105 which on the mountain thou mayst have heard. According as impress us our desires and our other affections, the shade is shaped; 108 and this is the cause of that at which thou wonderest.”
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