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“O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!…” |
Know thou that some of the souls who arrive at this
Blessed Spot possess hearing, seeing and smelling; they
see what no eye hath ever seen, they hear the melodies
of the Dove of Holiness on the Tree of Life, they inhale
the fragrances of God from this Garden, and they
surely realize that, verily, this Blessed Spot is a center
for pure seeing and strong hearing and is the direction
from which the breezes of the Holy Spirit blow.
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Know thou, verily, insight (or mental perception)
seeth that which sight (or physical perception) seeth
not and apprehendeth that which the body perceiveth
not, inasmuch as the sight seeth the mirage as water,
the images pictured in the mirror as a reality and genuine,
and it seeth the earth as stationary, the great stars
as small. But the insight correcteth the mistake of
the sight and apprehendeth the reality and seeth that
the mirage is not water, that the images pictured in
mirrors are naught else save mere reflections, that the
earth is moving and the distant stars are great. Consequently,
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the truth of insight, its effectiveness and power
is proven, as well as the weakness of sight, its inefficiency
and defects.
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Then, know thou that the power of the Word of God
is effective, both in the spirit and the body, and the influence
of the spirit of God is predominant over the
material as well as the essential and spiritual. And
that, verily, God is powerful in all things, and that the
signs (or verses) have exoteric and esoteric meaning,
and neither their outward preventeth their inward, nor
doth their inward prevent their outward meaning.
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