And his saying regarding Tawhid:
"Unique (Ahad), Solitary (Mutawahhid) by His Essence, Transcendent above His Names and Attributes; He was before the 'Before' (Qabla al-Qubal)."
So can the meanings of these utterances be perceived except through Knowledge and Mature Gnosis?
And his saying:
"The Flyers of Rectitude (Tayyarat al-Rushd) neither over-ascend nor descend falling.1
Did he not indicate by this a path and a destination guiding them to the Divine Realities?
Footnotes
1The Intellect and the Soul are the "Flyers of Rectitude" (Tayyarat al-Rushd): Because they fly toward the Supreme Kingdom (Al-Malakut al-A'la) to infer the Fixed Divine Realities."Neither over-ascend": Meaning neither rises above its station (its known rank)."Nor descend falling": Into the abyss of lusts and worldly attachments.And in another sense:They do not ascend above the High Lights, nor do they restrict them within the sensory.The High Lights: Are the Light, the Radiance, and the Shadow appearing in the Three Raiments (Al-Hulal al-Thalath).The Abstracts (Mujarradat): Are the High Lights sanctified from sensory perception; they are intellectual and spiritual forms, not sensory ones.In moments of spiritual clarity, the soul of the Gnostic Believer rids itself of worldly ties and ascends to the World of the Celestial Kingdom, heading toward the High Lights.Then, it abstracts those Lights from sensory names and attributes.It applies them to the Name (Ism), the Gate (Bab), and the Great Orphan (Yatim).At that point, it arrives at the knowledge of the Fixed Divine Realities.The Origin of the Light and its Source is the Light of the Essence, from which the Great Name (The Abstract Light / The Veil indicated in the text) was invented.And from that Light, the Radiance burst forth, which is the Look of the Noble Gate.And all the High Lights we mentioned regarding the Gate of the Absolute Abstract Existent issued and appeared from him, and in him they were concealed.He is their Conqueror/Dominator encompassing them.He is the Final Goal intended by the Intellectual and Spiritual indication.And it is impossible to enter into the knowledge of the Worshipped Meaning except from that Gate—who is not other than Him [in reality].