There is also another outlook on this subject: that although the soul, as a ray, goes forward to the physical sphere, yet its nature is to go backward, because it follows the law of gravitation. Just as the body which is made of clay is drawn to the earth, so the soul which belongs to the spirit is drawn to the spirit. "But", one may say, "we can see the body drawn to the earth, we can see all things of the earth drawn to the earth, but we do not see the law of gravitation working in the soul." Actually we do see it, but we deny it, because we do not look at it in that way.

For there is a dissatisfaction, a discontent, in every soul. A man may be in a palace or in a cottage, but no matter what condition he lives in there is an innate yearning and longing which even he himself does not recognize. One thinks today that one longs for money, tomorrow for a position, for fame or name; one goes from one thing to another. It just goes on, and when in the end one has reached one's object one wants something else. It is the law of gravitation, that yearning towards the Spirit, the Sun, which is at the back of it. That is why in ancient times people worshipped the sun god as a symbol of the sun within us, the sun which cannot be seen by our eyes, but which is the source and goal of all beings, from which we have come and to which we are drawn.

As it is said in the Qur'an, "From God we all come and to Him we have to return."

That means: there is a spirit, the spirit of all things, the essence of life from which we come and towards which we are drawn.

These three spheres can only be entered on one condition, and that condition is that the soul must clothe itself in the garb belonging to that particular sphere. It is that garb which makes an entity of the soul which hitherto was without any distinction or attribute; as soon as it has adopted this garb it becomes an entity. Before it was only a divine ray. The first garb makes the soul an entity known as. an angel. The next garb makes it a mind; and the third garb makes it a body.