The Five Senses
Baal Hasulam
The sense of hearing is but a
force of striking
of some essence on
the air.
And the air that is
rejected by it
strikes the drum in
our ear,
and we hear that
there is
some essence in our
proximity.
The sense of smell is but air
that emerges from
the essence
and strikes our
nerves of scent,
and we smell.
Also, the sense of taste
is a result of the
contact
of some essence
with our nerves of taste.
Thus, all that these four senses
offer us
are manifestations
of the operations
that stem from some
essence,
and nothing of the
essence itself.
Even the sense of touch,
the strongest of the
senses,
separating hot from
cold,
and solid from soft,
all these are but manifestations
of operations within
the essence;
they are but
incidents
of the essence.
This is so because the hot
can be chilled;
the cold can be
heated;
the solid can be
turned to liquid
through chemical
operations,
and the liquid into
air,
meaning only gas,
where any
discernment in our five senses
has been expired.
Yet, the essence still exists in
it,
since you can turn
the air
into liquid once
more,
and the liquid into
solid.
Evidently, the five senses
do not reveal to us
any essence at all,
but only incidents
and manifestations
of operations from
the essence.
It is known that
what we cannot sense,
we cannot imagine;
and what we cannot
imagine,
will never appear in
our thoughts,
and we have no way
to perceive it.
Thus, the thought has no
perception
whatsoever in the
essence.
Moreover, we do not
even know
our own essence.
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