 That's what elevation here refers to. That's what this work is about, is encountering God. He's writing this as a prayer, right? A prayer that the mind may be freed from its bondage to the things of the physical senses. I mean, our mind does have this bondage, you know? This is a chemist's prayer to God that we get to read about how he will be freed from the trappings of this world, not so that he's not just a clear thinker, but that he has an intimacy with our Lord. The human soul is made for union with God. It has this natural upward tendency, this kind of yearning for the higher things, and it's sin which holds us back, which entangles us in the things of this world. This is not to say that the physical senses in themselves are evil or anything like that, but they entangle us. They hold us back. They become our masters and our prisons.