You will see after a short while how this leads to the direction of thought, and how we can achieve mastery over the optic nerves, thereby mastering the power of will. Conceptualize that within your heart is a space, and that a fire is burning within it, and that this flame is the self—meaning the sanctified spirit. For there only issues from the pure rays of your heart the love of the other, tolerance, and faith in the Master, majestic is His power.

Muhyiddin, The Tree of Being (Shajarat al-Kawn): Knowledge rules over the disposition of the wayfarer (al-salik); it then reveals to him the sudden spiritual visitations (al-tawariq), the flashing gleams (al-bawariq), the spontaneous impulses (al-bawadir), the spiritual encounters (al-waqa'i'), the striking insights (al-qawadih), the ascendant lights (al-tawali'), the fleeting glimpses (al-lawamih), and the brilliant illuminations (al-lawami'). Following this, it reveals an illuminated space that has no end, no limit, and no form, but is rather an absolute light. This is for the purpose of stabilization (al-tamkin) within the Realm of Dominion (al-malakut) after having undergone shifting states (al-talwin) within it.