The sensory world seems to peel off as a rind or an overflow from the purely intellective world much as Plotinus describes Nature's contemplation, like the half-completed sketches of a geometer solving a problem and so that it might be possible to gather that contemplation into a purity without any residue, any loss of adoration. The higher is impersonal, you need the physical particularity to rejoin the personal subject but whom itself and its desire to exist. to persist may be absorbed again in some yet higher and more embracing ideal.