"And whosoever recognizes his soul through lowliness and annihilation recognizes his Lord through might and everlastingness. That is by reason of the mirror of servitude confronting the mirror of lordship, and the inscription of each within the other—which is the meaning of His saying: 'Neither My earth nor My heaven could contain Me, but the heart of My believing servant contained Me.' Whenever he recognizes his Lord through Divine Science, he becomes aware of the deposited secret within the realities of things, which is alluded to by His saying: {And He taught Adam the names, all of them} 1
As for the essence of a thing, it is the Truth. As for the end of the First Journey: it is the lifting of the veils of multiplicity from the face of unity. As for the end of the Second Journey: it is the lifting of unity from the existence of the internal, intelligible multiplicity. As for the end of the Third Journey: it is the cessation of imitation (al-taqlid) regarding the two opposites—the manifest and the hidden—by arriving into the oneness of the Essence of Gathering (Ahadiyyat 'Ayn al-Jam').