He looked toward me with anger and then stated: 'O Jabir, rather within the human form [al-Bashariyyah]! Unless he discloses your secrets or assists an enemy against you, in which case Allah casteth him down into the lowest of the low [Asfal al-Safilin].'

[190] And from Kitab al-Haft, the Eighth Chapter, one of the unitarians asked concerning the esoteric traditions, and he replied: 'Whosoever fails to recognize the Divine Command according to its true reality shall remain cycling within human physical bodies [al-abdan al-bashariyyah] until he reaches the ultimate apex of Gnosis.

He stated: 'Unless he is of those who leak your secrets [yufshi 'alaykum], whereupon he is seized by the tether of his spirit and cast out from the Abode of Gnosis [Dar al-Ma'rifah] into the Abode of Rejection [Dar al-Inkar], rendering him among the definitive losers.'

[191] And the Shaykh stated in his treatise: 'The Scholar—His glory is mighty—was asked concerning the Gnostic: when does he reach absolute purification so that he illuminates? And concerning the denier: when does he reach absolute turbidness so that he darkens? He replied: