longer
have
an
identity,
but
would
form
part
of
the
person
who
had
taken
them.
The
soul
hitherto,
though
dead
and
buried,
has
retained
its
own
being
;
it
is
only
in
this
degree
that
it
is
really
taken
out
of
itself.
All
that
has
taken
place
up
to
this
point
has
been
in
the
individual
capacity
of
the
creature
;
but
here
the
creature
is
taken
out
of
his
own
capacity
to
receive
an
infinite
capacity
in
God
Himself.
And
as
the
torrent,
when
it
enters
the
sea,
loses
its
own
being
in
such
a
way
that
it
retains
nothing
of
it,
and
takes
that
of
the
sea,
or
rather
is
taken
out
of
itself
to
be
lost
in
the
sea
;
so
this
soul
loses
the
human
in
order
that
it
may
lose
itself
in
the
divine,
which
becomes
its
being
and
its
subsistence,
not
essentially,
but
mystically.
Then
this
torrent
possesses
all
the
treasures
of
the
sea,
and
is
as
glorious
as
it
was
formerly
poor
and
miserable.
It
is
in
the
tomb
that
the
soul
begins
to
re-sume
life,
and
the
light
enters
insensibly.
Then
it
can
be
truly
said
that
"
The
people
which
sat
in
darkness
saw
great
light
;
and
to
them
which
sat
in
the
region
and
shadow
of
death
light
is
sprung
