And when Abraham, of the spirit, said, by the tongue of [his] state upon orienting himself to God and seeking presential vision: 'My Lord, make this land, that is, the land of the body, secure, from the overcomings of the attributes of the soul, the mutual conflict of the faculties and the mutual attraction of vain desires, and turn me and my sons, the rational faculties, both the considerative and the practical, reflection, intuition, remembrance and others, away from serving, the idols of multiplicity, away from sensory lusts, corporeal desires, the familiars of nature through love.