The Impossibility of a Conception

It is necessary to admit the impossibility of a conception such as the following. On one hand, the ideas separate from matter, on the other hand, matter at a distance from them, and then an irradiation from on high descending on matter. Such a conception would be senseless. What meaning would lie in the separation of the ideas and this distance of matter? Would it not then be very difficult to explain what is called the participation of matter in ideas? Only by examples can we make our meaning clear.