The Improvement of Human Reason, Exhibited in the Life of Hayy Ibn Yakzan:
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This he apphed himself to ; and as for the negative attributes, they all consisted in separation from bodily things. He began therefore to strip himself of aU bodily properties, which he had made some progi-ess in before, during the time of the former exercise, when he was employed in the imitation of the heavenly bodies ; but there stiU remained a great many relics, as his circular motion, — motion being one of the — 54 — most proper attributes of Body, — and his care of animals and plants, co...mpassion upon them, and industry in removing whatever inconvenienced them. Now, all these things belong to corporeal attributes, for he could not see these things at first, but by corporeal faculties ; and he was obliged to make use of the same faculties in preserving them. Therefore he began to reject and remove all those things from himself, as being in no wise consistent with that state which he was now in search of.
So he continued, confining himself to rest in the bottom of his cave, with his head bowed down, and his eyes shut, and turning himself away altogether from all sensible things and the corporeal faculties, and bending all his thoughts and meditations upon the Necessarily Self-Existent Being, without admitting anything else besides him ; and if any other object presented itself to his imagination, he rejected it with his utmost force ; and exercised himself in this, and persisted in it to that degree that sometimes he did neither eat nor stir for a great many days together.
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This he apphed himself to ; and as for the negative attributes, they all consisted in separation from bodily things. He began therefore to strip himself of aU bodily properties, which he had made some progi-ess in before, during the time of the former exercise, when he was employed in the imitation of the heavenly bodies ; but there stiU remained a great many relics, as his circular motion, — motion being one of the — 54 — most proper attributes of Body, — and his care of animals and plants, co...mpassion upon them, and industry in removing whatever inconvenienced them. Now, all these things belong to corporeal attributes, for he could not see these things at first, but by corporeal faculties ; and he was obliged to make use of the same faculties in preserving them. Therefore he began to reject and remove all those things from himself, as being in no wise consistent with that state which he was now in search of.
So he continued, confining himself to rest in the bottom of his cave, with his head bowed down, and his eyes shut, and turning himself away altogether from all sensible things and the corporeal faculties, and bending all his thoughts and meditations upon the Necessarily Self-Existent Being, without admitting anything else besides him ; and if any other object presented itself to his imagination, he rejected it with his utmost force ; and exercised himself in this, and persisted in it to that degree that sometimes he did neither eat nor stir for a great many days together.
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