So it is with the soul. Man makes it miserable, wicked, ignorant, wise or illuminated by being conscious of these things. The soul is neither the one nor the other. The soul is only soul. However there is the difficulty that very often people, having a certain conception of the soul, do not see the idea of the mystic and say, "a wicked soul, a bad soul, a foolish soul." But the soul cannot be that, the soul is the soul, it is beyond any attributes.