For indeed, the outward manifestation of what you have witnessed will guide you to the inward reality of what was hidden from you, just as a beholder of an image depicted on a wall infers the existence of the painter of that depicted image, and just as one infers from the observed movements of his hand the secrets of its design and shaping, based on the subtleties of what was established within his thought and soul from the entirety of that.

O soul: Representation (analogy) is employed for all things through the existing traces when their originators are absent. Representation is also used for contemplation and wonder regarding what has occurred and what will inevitably occur, by using various parables to illustrate both the hidden and the witnessed aspects of things.

Therefore, employ, O soul, visualization and representation in all things that exist, whether intellectually or through the senses. Know that the truly essential, original, complete, and luminous Being is the one who bestows subtle wisdoms, noble distinctions, and eternal life.