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516-540

  • O thou that seekest help, the celestial sphere, (at a distance) of five hundred years' journey, is in effect nigh unto the earth.

  • ’Tis (a journey of) three thousand five hundred years to Saturn; (yet) his special property acts incessantly (upon the earth).

  • He (God) rolls it up like a shadow at the return (of the sun): in the sun's presence what is (what avails) the length of the shadow?

  • And from the pure star like souls replenishment is ever coming to the stars of heaven.

  • The outward (aspect) of those stars is our ruler, (but) our inward (essence) has become the ruler of the sky. 520

  • Explaining that (while) philosophers say that Man is the microcosm, theosophists say that Man is the macrocosm, the reason being that philosophy is confined to the phenomenal form of Man, whereas theosophy is connected with the essential truth of his true nature.

  • Therefore in form thou art the microcosm, therefore in reality thou art the macrocosm.

  • Externally the branch is the origin of the fruit; intrinsically the branch came into existence for the sake of the fruit.

  • If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?

  • Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even) if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.

  • Hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “Adam and the (other) prophets are (following) behind me under (my) banner.” 525

  • For this reason that master of (all) sorts of knowledge has uttered the allegorical saying, “We are the last and the foremost.”

  • (That is to say), “If in appearance I am born of Adam, in reality I am the forefather of (every) forefather,

  • Since the worship of the angels was (rendered) to him for my sake, and he ascended to the Seventh Heaven on my account.

  • Therefore in reality the Father (Adam) was born of me, therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit.”

  • The thought (idea), which is first, comes last into actuality, in particular the thought that is eternal. 530

  • To sum up, in a single moment the caravan is going from Heaven and coming here.

  • This way is not long for this caravan: how should the desert show itself formidable to him who has been granted success (by God)?

  • The heart (spirit) is faring to the Ka‘ba at every moment, and through (Divine) bounty the body assumes the nature of the heart.

  • This longness and shortness appertains to the body: where God is, what is “long” and “short”?

  • When God has transmuted the body, He makes its faring to be without league or mile. 535

  • There are a hundred hopes at this (present) time. Step (forward), O youth, like a (true) lover and relinquish (idle) disputation.

  • Albeit thou art closing thine eyelids, thou art asleep in the ship and voyaging (in safety).

  • Exposition of the Hadíth, "The parable of my community is the parable of the Ship (Ark) of Noah: whoso shall cleave to it is saved, and whoso shall hold back from it is drowned."

  • On this account the Prophet said, “I am as the Ship (Ark) in the Flood of Time.

  • I and my Companions are as the Ship of Noah: whoso clings (to us) will gain (spiritual) graces.”

  • When you are with the Shaykh you are far removed from wickedness: day and night you are a traveller and in a ship. 540