And he says: 'The Form is the Inaccessible Unseen and the Concealed Treasure. Had the Form been 'other' than Him, then the One Known [by the Gnostics] would be someone other than Him.'

And he says: 'The origin of the Sheikh's doctrine is built upon [the fact] that the Form is the Goal, and She is the Essence, and She is the Inaccessible Unseen.'

And he [the Sheikh] says: 'The entirety of the scholars' realization is that the Visual Form is the Inaccessible Unseen and the Great Essence; and that it is one single Essence and one single Reality—its Outward (Zahir) is not contrary to its Inward (Batin), nor is its Inward contrary to its Outward.'

And he says [quoting a verse]:

'He shows them the Essence as a Form-representation through His Power,

Exalted is the Shaper (al-Musawwir) above a materialized shaping.'

His saying 'He shows them the Essence' is proof that the Form is the Great Essence and the Inaccessible Unseen.

And he says: 'The Gnostic Sufis among the people of Monotheism (Ahl al-Tawhid) have established a convention to use symbols for Her—meaning for the Form of Majesty (Surat al-Jalal) and the Form of Beauty (Surat al-Jamal)—through the Sun and the Moon.