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created or distilled in any way. The external stimulus merely gives a knock; a part of the entirety of knowIedge' hears' that knock, and responds to it. For every idea there is a distinct kind of knock. In the case of all embodied souls this knock is necessary. Those who have separated their souls completely from flesh and matter do not stand in need of these knocks; in their case knowledge is set free eternally from the unhappy companionship of matter, and therefore they become omniscient.
