their locomotion, their strength, and their breaths that circulate within their bodies—an inward and outward air, contracting and expanding, cold and blended so by its balance, the spirit extends, and by rest, the body is revitalized. Out of the illumination of the aquatic cosmos comes the moisture of their bodies, their softness [liyanuhum], their sneezing, their tears, and their saliva. Out of the illumination of the fiery cosmos comes the fire that resides within their bodies, for it digests their food and drink and processes them through heat. Their bodies, flesh, bones, veins, skins, and hair are synthesized, yet they are dust. The seventh cosmos is the holiness of recognition [quds al-ma'rifah]; it is an illuminating sphere which the souls of the believers stand ready to receive its illumination. As for the disbelievers, they are entirely devoid of its illumination due to their rejection of the Truth. These six cosmoses existing within the genesis of human beings—which have populated their bodies—are distinct from the luminous cosmoses that populated the bodies of the People of Light [Ahl al-Nur]; these terrestrial cosmoses were merely made a similitude of those luminous cosmoses.

[132] And some of the sages said: "The believers were created from light, by it they are guided,