82. [81.] Appearing in the first surrogate Muhammad is a luminous glow, like the glow of a torch, and when Muslims look in his direction, it flows from him into them through the agency of spirits. For separating distances in the spiritual world are only appearances, and when someone thinks about another, the distance vanishes and becomes presence. Muhammad is skillful in instructing those who question him. It was granted me to perceive the atmosphere of their life. Outwardly pleasant, it inwardly harbored a lasciviousness which they have from their matrimony contracted with several wives and concubines. It contained a filthy heat, but a heat which to Muslims is pleasant.