...up to his saying: 'O Mufaddal, when the Power (al-Qudra) appears alongside the Sign (al-Ishara) from the Form, then the Essence is what displayed it. For the Form is the Prime Matter of all Prime Matters, the Pre-eternity of all pre-eternal things, the Manifester of miracles and dazzling powers. Its Outward is bound to its Inward, as He said: "My Outward is Imamate and Successorship (Wasiyya), while my Inward is an Unseen that cannot be perceived."'
'O Mufaddal: Whoever knows the locations of the Attribute (mawaqi' al-sifa) has reached the depth of gnosis. These locations are the Power that appeared from the Visual Manifest Form, and the acknowledgment of its Meaningness (al-Ma’nawiyya).'
'O Mufaddal: Have you not heard the allusion in His saying: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth" 1 ?' He says: 'This is sufficient as a refutation against whoever denied His station in the Two Existences [the higher and lower worlds]. We have described what we have known, we have worshiped what we have found, and we have realized the truth—thus we have declared [His] Oneness.