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(2) Thou art the lord of forms, with numerous colours, who conceals himself within his eye to his children

(8) O, thou Child of Man! open the Eyes of thy Spirit, for I will show thee here the right and real proper Gate of the Deity, as indeed that very one only God will have it.

(90) Here shut the Eyes of thy Flesh a little, for here they will profit thee nothing, seeing they are blind and dead, and open the Eyes of thy Spirit, and then I will rightly show thee the Creation of God. Observe,

(62) Thou hast made these "Us" and "Me" for this purpose, To wit, to play chess with them by Thyself. When Thou shalt become one entity with "Us" and "You." When these "We" and "Ye" shall all become one Soul, Then they will be lost and absorbed in the "Beloved." These are plain truths. Come then, O Lord! Who art exalted above description and explanation! Is it possible for the bodily eye to behold Thee? Can mind of man conceive Thy frowns and Thy smiles? Are hearts, when bewitched by Thy smiles and frowns,

(9) (Aye, when shall faith be changed to sight ); and when shall I in verity discern if Ye indeed have power over aught, O Lord! and through Thy Righteous Order (guarding here on earth), O Thou within whose (power lie) my griefs and doubts? Let then Thy saving prophet find and gain aright (for) my delight Thy Good Mind's wonder-working grace ; yea, let Thy Saoshyant see how gifts of recompense may be his own.

(8) He is not apprehended by the eye, nor by speech, nor by the other senses, not by penance or good works. When a man's nature has become purified by the serene light of knowledge, then he sees him, meditating on him as without parts.

(125) If the Eyes of thy Spirit shall stand open, then thou must generate thus, else thy Comprehensibility is a foolish Virgin, and it befalls thee, as if a Limner should offer to pourtray the Deity on a Table, and tell thee, it is made right, the Deity is just so.

(2) He, then, alone who is not made, 'tis clear, is both beyond all power of thinking-manifest, and is unmanifest. And as He thinketh all things manifest, He manifests through all things and in all, and most of all in whatsoever things He wills to manifest. Do thou, then, Tat, my son, pray first unto our Lord and Father, the One-and-Only One, from whom the One doth come, to show His mercy unto thee, in order that thou mayest have the power to catch a thought of this so mighty God, one single beam of Him to shine into thy thinking. For thought alone "sees" the Unmanifest, in that it is itself unmanifest. If, then, thou hast the power, He will, Tat, manifest to thy mind's eyes. The Lord begrudgeth not Himself to anything, but manifests Himself through the whole world. Thou hast the power of taking thought, of seeing it and grasping it in thy own "hands", and gazing face to face upon God's Image. But if what is within thee even is unmanifest to thee, how, then, shall He Himself who is within thy self be manifest for thee by means of [outer] eyes?