The body is the form—meaning the form of the Alif—and this form is the body from which the pure worlds received their action (infa'alat).
The body is not part of the reality of the Name—meaning it is not among its essential constituents—since the reality of the Name consists of lights, not bodies or human flesh, nor is it part of its sustaining components; rather, it is external to its reality. And that which is external to the reality of a thing is negated from it. Thus, the [form] 1 is negated and the power is affirmed, and wherever the power is exists, the All-Powerful is present. Thus, what we have mentioned regarding the negation of form, the affirmation of power, and the unification of the Meaning—Glorified and Exalted is He—has become clear.
[11]And it has been narrated on the authority of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar, peace be upon him, raising it to the Master al-Sadiq, His glory is magnificent, that he said: "O Mufaddal, indeed the Exalted, the One, when He manifests to His creation, appears through three veils by which He veils His Essence with His light, veils His light with His radiance,