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588-597

  • The sun that becomes resplendent, and before which the (keenest) sight is blunted and dazzled—
  • Thou wilt see it as a mote in the light of the Divine Throne, (a mote) beside the illimitable abounding light of the Divine Throne.
  • Thou wilt deem it base and lowly and impermanent, (when) strength has come to thine (inward) eye from the Creator.” 590
  • (The Divine Light is) the Philosophers' Stone from which a single impression fell on the (primal) vapour, and it (the vapour) became a star;
  • The unique elixir of which half a gleam struck upon a (region of) darkness and made it the sun;
  • The marvellous alchemist who by a single operation fastened all these properties on Saturn.
  • Know, O seeker, that the remaining planets and the spiritual substances are (to be judged) according to the same standard.
  • The sensuous eye is subject to the sun: seek and find a divine eye, 595
  • In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;
  • For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.
  • The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.