the entire creation, He on Whose right hand flow the seas of grandeur, on Whose left stream the rivers of might, and Whose court none can ever hope to reach, how much less His very abode!  For He dwelleth in the ark of fire, speedeth, in the sphere of fire, through the ocean of fire, and moveth within the atmosphere of fire.  How can he who hath been fashioned of contrary elements ever enter or even approach this fire?  Were he to do so, he would be instantly consumed.

111 Know, moreover, that should the cord of assistance binding this mighty Pivot to the dwellers of earth and heaven be severed, they would all assuredly perish.  Great God!  How can the lowly dust ever reach unto Him Who is the Lord of lords?  Immeasurably exalted is God above that which they conceive in their hearts, and immensely glorified is He beyond that which they attribute to Him.

112 Yea, the seeker reacheth a station wherein that which hath been ordained for him knoweth no bounds.  The fire of love so blazeth in his heart that it seizeth the reins of constraint from his grasp.  At every moment his love for his Lord increaseth and draweth him nearer unto his Creator, in such wise that if his Lord be in the east of nearness, and he dwell in the west of remoteness and possess all that earth and heaven contain of rubies and gold, he would forsake it all and rush forth to the land of the Desired One.  And shouldst thou find him to be otherwise, know assuredly that such a man is a lying impostor.  We, verily, all belong unto Him Whom God shall make manifest in the latter Resurrection, and through Him shall we be raised again to life.

113 In these days, inasmuch as We have lifted not the veils that conceal the countenance of the Cause of God, nor disclosed unto men the fruits of these stations which We have been forbidden to describe, thou beholdest them drunk with heedlessness.  Otherwise, were the glory of this station to be revealed unto men to an extent smaller than a needle’s eye, thou wouldst witness them gathering before the threshold of divine mercy and hastening from all sides to the court of nearness in the realms of divine glory.  We have concealed it, however, as mentioned before, that those who believe may be distinguished from them that deny, and that those who turn unto God may be discerned from them that turn aside.  I verily proclaim:  “There is no power nor strength except in God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”

114 From this station the wayfarer ascendeth unto a City that hath no name or description, and whereof one heareth neither sound nor mention.  Therein flow the oceans of eternity, whilst this city itself revolveth round the seat of eternity.  Therein the sun of the Unseen shineth resplendent above the horizon of the Unseen, a sun that hath its own heavens and its own moons, which partake of its light and which rise from and set upon the ocean of the Unseen.  Nor can I ever hope to impart even a dewdrop of that which hath been decreed therein, as none is acquainted with its mysteries save God, its Creator and Fashioner, and His Manifestations.