expertus dubitas animas percurrere visu abdita corporeis oculis, cum saepe quietis rore soporatis cernat mens viva remotos distantesque locos, aciem per rura, per astra, per maria intendens? nec enim se segregat ipsa ante obitum vivis ex artubus aut fugit exul sanguinis et carnis penetralia seque medullis exuit abductamve abigit de pectore vitam, viscerea sed sede manens speculatur acutis omnia luminibus et, qua circumtulit acrem naturae levis intuitum nullo obice rerum disclusa, ante oculos subiectum prospicit orbem atque orbis sub mole situm sordens elementum.
Do you doubt that souls can see things hidden from bodily eyes? You must know from experience how often, when we are deeply asleep, our minds can see places far away and separated by great distances. Our minds do not leave our living bodies, nor do they abandon the flesh and blood home within us, withdrawing from our innermost parts and taking the life from our chest. Yet while remaining within our bodies, our minds can still explore all things with their keen sight. They can turn their sharp, subtle gaze in all directions, unimpeded by any material barriers, to view the world before us, including the most ordinary things on earth.