The soul is likened to the caterpillar. As a caterpillar reflects all the beauty of colors that it sees, and out of it turns itself into a butterfly, so does the soul.

• When in the angelic world, it reflects the angelic beauty, manifesting itself in the form of an angel;
• when in the world of genius, it reflects the jinn qualities, covering itself thereby with the form of a jinn;
• when in the world of man, it reflects human qualities, manifesting itself therefore in the form of man.