The Bowl of Saki Commentary

That is because this control leads to the Pleroma, the fullness of things, the essence of thing-ness, and so includes everything. Each thing, which can be called a separate thing, has a nufs that distinguishes it from other things, but this distinction is on both sides: both the thing and the desirer of that thing must have the nufs. The chemist can control atoms by destroying the nufs, and the seer controls mental atoms in much the same way. In that way you control all thought by destroying the nufs of thought.