Yet it is still not the self that has descended into its depths and knows itself as evil; but it is something that only immediately is, a soul that cleanses its exterior by washing it, and puts on white robes, while its inward being traverses the imaginatively conceived path of works, punishments, and rewards, the path of spiritual training in general, ie of ridding itself of its particularity, as a result of which it reaches the dwellings and the community of the blest.