And know that nature is the shadow of the universal soul described by the two powers expressed in the language of the Sharia by the Preserved Tablet. Whatever does not extend from the shadow of the soul and remains in it, it is what it descended from the mind in the degree of light and illumination. And what extends from the shadow of the soul is called nature, and the extension of this shadow is over the entire physical essence. From the essence of the substance and nature, the whole body appeared dark, and for this reason they likened it to the black obsidian of this natural darkness, and they called the soul the green emerald, because it descended with it from the mind in the light, and in the whole body, the images and shapes of the world of bodies appeared, and this was for the whole body, like the members. When the body was prepared with what it was prepared with, the soul directed toward it and illuminated it, and it spread. Life in all of its members, for these are the sou