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  • He is the Lord of the kingdom: He gives to a Joseph the kingdom of Beauty, so that he is (lovely) as the water of white clouds. 3055
  • He bestows upon one face the radiance of a star, so that a king becomes the slave of a girl.
  • He bestows upon another face His own Light, so that at midnight it sees everything good and evil.
  • Joseph and Moses fetched light from God into their cheeks and countenances and into their inmost bosoms.
  • The face of Moses shot forth a flashing beam: he hung a veil in front of his face.
  • The splendour of his face would have dazzled (men's) eyes as the emerald (blinds) the eyes of the deaf adder. 3060
  • He besought God that the veil might become a covering for that powerful Light.
  • He (God) said, “Hark, make a veil of thy felt raiment, for the garment of gnosis can be trusted (to keep it safe),
  • Because that robe has become inured to the Light: the Light of the Spirit shines through its warp and woof.
  • Nothing will be a (safe) repository (for it) except a mantle like this: nothing else can endure Our Light.
  • If Mt Qáf should come forward as a barrier (to it), the Light would rend it asunder like Mt Sinai.” 3065
  • Through the (Divine) omnipotence the bodies of (holy) men have gained ability to support the unconditioned Light.
  • His (God's) power makes a glass vessel the dwelling-place of that (Light) of which Sinai cannot bear (even) a mote.
  • A lamp-niche and a lamp-glass have become the dwelling-place of the Light by which Mt Qáf and Mt Sinai are torn to pieces.
  • Know that their (the holy men's) bodies are the lamp-niche and their hearts the glass: this lamp illumines the empyrean and the heavens.
  • Their (the heavens') light is dazzled by this Light and vanishes like the stars in this radiance of morning. 3070
  • Hence the Seal of the prophets has related (the saying) of the everlasting and eternal Lord—
  • “I am not contained in the heavens or in the void or in the exalted intelligences and souls;
  • (But) I am contained, as a guest, in the true believer's heart, without qualification or definition or description,
  • To the end that by the mediation of that heart (all) above and below may win from Me sovereignties and fortune.
  • Without such a mirror neither Earth nor Time could bear the vision of My beauty. 3075
  • I caused the steed of (My) mercy to gallop over the two worlds: I fashioned a very spacious mirror.
  • From this mirror (appear) at every moment fifty (spiritual) wedding-feasts: hearken to the mirror, but do not ask (Me) to describe it.”
  • The gist (of the discourse) is this, that he (Moses) made a veil of his raiment, since he knew the penetrativeness of (the light of) that Moon.
  • Had the veil been (made) of anything except his raiment, it would have been torn to shreds, (even) if it had been (like) a solid mountain.
  • It (the Light) would penetrate through iron walls: what contrivance could the veil employ against the Light of God? 3080
  • That veil had become glowing: it was the mantle of a gnostic in the moment of ecstasy.
  • The fire is deposited (becomes immanent) in the tinder because it (the tinder) is already familiar with the fire.
  • And in sooth Safúrá, from desire and love for that Light of true guidance, sacrificed both her eyes.
  • At first she closed one eye and beheld the light of his (Moses') face (with the other); and that eye was lost.
  • Afterwards she could no longer restrain herself and (therefore) she opened the other (eye) and spent it on that Moon. 3085
  • Even so the (spiritual) warrior (first) gives away his bread; (but) when the light of devotion strikes on him, he gives away his life.
  • Then a woman said to her, “Art thou grieving for the jonquil-like eye that thou hast lost?”
  • “I am grieving,” she replied, “(to think) would that I had a hundred thousand eyes to lavish (on that Moon)!
  • The window, (which is) mine eye, has been ruined by the Moon; but the Moon is seated (there) like the (buried) treasure in the ruin.
  • How should the treasure let this ruin of mine have (any regretful) memory of my porch and house?” 3090
  • The light of Joseph's face, when he was passing by, used to fall on the latticed windows of every villa,
  • And the people within the house would say, “Joseph is taking a walk in this quarter and passing by”;
  • For they would see the radiance on the wall, and then the landlords (inmates) would understand (the cause of it).
  • The house that has its window in that direction is ennobled by that Joseph's walking for recreation.
  • Hark, open a window towards Joseph and begin to delight yourself by looking at him through the aperture. 3095
  • The business of love is to make that window (in the heart), for the breast is illumined by the beauty of the Beloved.
  • Therefore gaze incessantly on the face of the Beloved! This is in your power. Hearken, O father!
  • Make a way for yourself into the innermost parts: banish the perception that is concerned with other (than God).
  • You possess an elixir: treat your (vile) skin (with it), and by means of this art (alchemy) make your enemies your friends.
  • When you have become beauteous you will attain unto the Beauteous One who delivers the spirit from friendlessness. 3100
  • His moisture (grace) is nourishment for the garden of spirits; His breath revives him that has died of anguish.
  • He does not (only) bestow (on you) the entire kingdom of the base world; He bestows a hundred thousand kingdoms of diverse kinds.
  • God gave him (Joseph), in addition to the kingdom of beauty, the kingdom of interpretation (of dreams) without his having studied and taken lessons (in that science).
  • The kingdom of beauty led him to prison; the kingdom of knowledge led him to Saturn.