Awareness

Awareness is due to the influence of the spirit: whoever has more of this belongs to God. Since there are awarenesses beyond this bodily nature, these sensual souls of ours are like solid minerals in that Divine arena. The first soul is the manifestation of the outward Court of God, whereas the Soul of the soul is the very manifestation of God. The angels were the whole intelligence and spirit in the creation; but then a new spirit came for which they were its body. When they inclined to that spirit of Adam, due to their good fortune, they became servants for that spirit, like the body.

The Masnawi - Volume VI, 150-4)