789. But they are reduced or clothed in such an order, so that they may be perfected, for the things which still inhere, as the natural, worldly, and corporeal things joined one with the other, are like ferment, when they are gradually resolved. In order that the life may thus ferment, as it were, so that such things may also be as though separated or rendered innocuous, the spirits are reduced almost to their former state; thus they become still more perfect.