The purpose of the world and desire, the devil, is to exercise and educate the mind by furnishing it experiences through sensation, that it may distinguish between the action of its own faculties and the results of sensation, and that by the overcoming of the resistance offered by desire the faculties of the mind be developed, and so the mind finally arrives at an understanding and mastery of itself and from a mastery of itself, to a knowledge of itself, and freedom.
Inhloso yezwe kanye nesifiso, uDeveli, ukuwusebenzisa nokufundisa ingqondo ngokusinikeza okuhlangenwe nakho ngokuzwa, ukuze ukwazi ukuhlukanisa phakathi kwesenzo samandla abo kanye nemiphumela yokuzwa, nokuthi ngokunqotshwa kokumelana ezinikezwa ngesifiso amandla omqondo akhuliswa, ngakho-ke ekugcineni ingqondo ifika ekuqondeni nasekuziphatheni ngokwalo nasekuziphatheni ngokwalo, ekuzileni kwayo, nangenkululeko.