now
it
is
the
effect
of
plenitude
and
abundance;
just
as
if
a
person
could
live
on
air,
he
would
be
full
without
feeling
his
plenitude,
or
knowing
in
what
way
he
had
been
satisfied
;
he
would
not
be
empty
and
unable
to
eat
or
to
taste,
but
free
from
all
necessity
of
eating
by
reason
of
his
satisfaction,
without
knowing
how
the
air,
entering
by
all
his
pores,
had
penetrated
equally
at
all
parts.
The
soul
here
is
in
God,
as
in
the
air
which
is
natural
to
it,
and
it
is
no
more
sensible
of
its
fulness
than
we
are
of
the
air
we
breathe.
Yet
it
is
full,
and
nothing
is
wanting
to
it
;
therefore
all
its
desires
are
taken
from
it.
Its
peace
is
great,
but
not
as
it
was
before.
Formerly
it
was
an
inanimate
peace
a
certain
sepulture,
from
which
there
sometimes
escaped
exhalations
which
troubled
it.
When
it
was
reduced
to
ashes,
it
was
at
peace;
but
it
was
a
barren
peace,
like
that
of
a
corpse,
which
would
be
at
peace
in
the
midst
of
the
wildest
storms
of
the
sea
:
it
would
not
feel
them,
and
would
not
be
troubled
by
them,
its
state
of
death
rendering
is
insensible.
But
here
the
soul
is
raised,
as
it
were,
to
a
mountain-top,
from
which
it
sees
the
waves
