"Man’s mind is the mind of the sensible world, but we have another mind which is called conscience. This is reason itself, and does not belong to form . It is infinite and eternal. As our conscience is one with reason, it has no beginning or end. If we act in accord with reason or conscience, we are ourselves the incarnations of the infinite and eternal, and have eternal life."
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