And he says: 'That Form and those Manifestations which He displayed for ocular witnessing are Him—based on what we have demonstrated in the Epistle—for He manifested them so that Ocular Witnessing (al-'Iyan) might be established and Certainty (al-Yaqin) might be valid.'

And he says: 'Indeed, the pillars of this Shaybi House [the doctrine of the Sect] are built upon the Knowledge of the Form (meaning: the Ocular Existence).'

And he says: 'The Origin of Origins in this doctrine—the doctrine of the Master of the Path [al-Khasibi] and the Exemplar of the People of Reality—is that the Visual Form is the Universal Goal; and that She is the Majesty of the Great Essence and the Supreme Divinity (al-Lahutiyya al-Kubra); and She is the Inaccessible Unseen, barred from encompassment and perception.'

And he says: 'The Form through which He manifested with the Luminosity of Divinity in the First Cycle (al-Dawr al-Ula) is the very same Visual Anza'i Form. It is the Inaccessible Unseen from which the deniers were veiled, and regarding the knowledge of which they fell into illusion.

And he [the Sheikh] says: 'By the Inaccessible Unseen (al-Ghayb al-Mani'), the Illusory Point (al-Nuqta al-Wahmiyya), and the Concealed Treasure (al-Kanz al-Makhbu'), they intend naught but the