אליגוריות החוקים, ספר ג י״דAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis, Book III 14
א׳
1[42] For this reason he glories elsewhere saying “The Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father’s house” (Gen. 24:7); for it is not possible that he whose abode is in the body and the mortal race should attain to being with God; this is possible only for him whom God rescues out of the prison.
ב׳
2[43] For this reason Isaac also, the soul’s gladness, when he meditates and is alone with God, goes forth, quitting himself and his own mind; for it says, “Isaac went forth into the plain to meditate as evening was drawing near” (Gen. 24:63). Yes, and Moses, the word of prophecy, says, “When I go forth out of the city,” the soul to wit (for this too is the city of the living being giving him laws and customs), “I will spread out my hands” (Exod. 9:29), and I will spread open and unfold all my doings to God, calling Him to be witness and overseer of each one of them, from whom evil cannot hide itself, but is forced to remove all disguises and be plainly seen.
ג׳
3[44] When the soul in all utterances and all actions has attained to perfect sincerity and godlikeness, the voices of the senses cease and all those abominable sounds that used to vex it. For the visible calls and summons the sense of sight to itself, and the voice calls the sense of hearing, and the perfume that of smell, and all round the object of sense invites the sense to itself. But all these ceases when the mind goes forth from the city of the soul and finds in God the spring and aim of its own doings and intents.