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1772-1796

  • After that, God spake secretly in the inmost heart of Moses mysteries which cannot be spoken.
  • Words were poured upon his heart: vision and speech were mingled together.
  • How oft did he become beside himself and how oft return to himself! How oft did he fly from eternity to everlastingness!
  • If I should unfold (his tale) after this, ’tis foolishness (in me), because the explanation of this is beyond (our) understanding; 1775
  • And if I should speak (thereof), ’twould root up (men's) minds; and if I should write (thereof), ’twould shatter many pens.
  • When Moses heard these reproaches from God, he ran into the desert in quest of the shepherd.
  • He pushed on over the footprints of the bewildered man, he scattered dust from the skirt of the desert.
  • The footstep of a man distraught is, in truth, distinct from the footsteps of others:
  • (At) one step, (he moves) like the rook (straight) from top to bottom (of the chessboard); (at) one step he goes crossways, like the bishop; 1780
  • Now lifting his crest like a wave; now going on his belly like a fish;
  • Now writing (a description of) his state on some dust, like a geomancer who takes an omen by drawing lines (on earth or sand).
  • At last he (Moses) overtook and beheld him; the giver of glad news said, “Permission has come (from God).
  • Do not seek any rules or method (of worship); say whatsoever your distressful heart desires.
  • Your blasphemy is (the true) religion, and your religion is the light of the spirit: you are saved, and through you a (whole) world is in salvation. 1785
  • O you who are made secure by God doeth whatso He willeth, go, loose your tongue without regard (for what you say).”
  • He said, “O Moses, I have passed beyond that: I am now bathed in (my) heart's blood.
  • I have passed beyond the Lote-tree of the farthest bourn, I have gone a hundred thousand years' journey on the other side.
  • Thou didst ply the lash, and my horse shied, made a bound, and passed beyond the sky.
  • May the Divine Nature be intimate with my human nature— blessings be on thy hand and on thine arm! 1790
  • Now my state is beyond telling: this which I am telling is not my (real) state.”
  • You behold the image which is in a mirror: it is your (own) image, it is not the image of the mirror.
  • The breath which the flute-player puts into the flute—does it belong to the flute? No, it belongs to the man (the flute-player).
  • Take good heed! Whether you speak praise (of God) or thanksgiving, know that it is even as the unseemly (words) of that shepherd.
  • Though your praise is better in comparison with that, yet in relation to God it too is maimed (feeble). 1795
  • How often will you say, when the lid has been raised, “This was not what they were thinking (it was)!”