Indeed, jewels remain beautiful and brilliant as long as they are hidden in their shells, and indeed, the heart—its possessor dies if the chest is split open without scientific knowledge to examine it.

[19] And here is the Messiah—His might was mighty—forbidding us from disclosing our secret by his saying: “Do not cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.”

Is there not in this majestic speech a clear indication that we withhold our knowledge from its unworthy recipient, thereby safeguarding it from his negligence and contempt, and saving ourselves from his evil and harm?

Indeed, the first evidence for the existence of The Esoteric (Al-Batin) is the hiddenness of the Creator from the eyes of the deniers alongside the clarity of His manifestation to the gnostics. The Exalted said:[“No! Indeed, from their Lord, that Day, they will be partitioned.”] ¹ .