impinge on the intellect's view, and turn it towards themselves. Then with some of those steam-like meanings condensing, a number of inclinations and ideas are suspended, while the intellect shows an interest in others since they are distilled into droplets. Then since some of those that are liquid solidify, the intellect includes them in speech. Then since some of the solidified meanings take on a form and manifestation through a particular depiction, the intellect presents the meanings with a particular figure in accordance with their stature. That is to say, those thus distinguished are assimilated in the particular form of the speech. Those that do not solidify are handed to its general tenor and import. And those that are not reproduced are assigned to the speech's implications. Those that are not distilled are handed over to the speech's allusions, and those that are not condensed assist the speech's effectiveness through the speaker's attitude which accompanies the speech.

Thus, of the pipes of this sequence, the one named, and the verb's meaning, and what is indicated by the letters, and contained in the ordering, and understood by the whole, and alluded to by the style, and referred to by what is denoted, are the stimuli arising from the speaker's attitudes which escort the speech. So too, what is intended by the literal meanings, the allusive meanings, the analogical meanings, the necessary meanings, and others, all come together from the sequence's different levels and emerge from this mine.

If you would like to observe this, take a look at your own conscience; you will see the levels, as follows:

If, sometime, the rays and flashes of your beloved's beauty shine on your conscience through window of your eyes, the searing fire of passion will suddenly flare up. On the emotions swelling, hopes and desires will be fired also, and because those hopes will pierce the ceiling of the imagination on the upper floor, calling for help; and because in the treasury of imagination, ranged in rank they hold the beloved's beauties in their hands or picture them on bringing them to mind, the imaginings, sated with the loveliness of