Thus, the people of affirmation believe in the promise, yet they do not know that the prophet whose manifestation they were promised is this very one, until he actually manifests the new station, introduces himself and his predecessors to them, and they subsequently believe him and submit to his command, continuing so until the finality of the religious laws.

As for those who know the stations across all manifestations to be one and the same, they constitute the Macrocosm (al-'alam al-kabir); and whoever has been purified from the Microcosm (al-'alam al-saghir), they are [verifiers] ¹ across all manifestations, who did not forget nor did they overlook. If a questioner says, "We also answered the call across all historical manifestations," we say to him: "Clarify that for us—how did you answer across all [the domes] ² ? Is it through a report you merely heard, or by direct gnosis that you recognized? What was your name during each manifestation? [And where was] ³ your dwelling place?