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34 splendor of the lights of the Sun of Knowledge and Significances and to the essences of the mysteries of Intuitive Wisdom!

Consider, if these barren soils of being had not been transformed, how could the mysteries of Unity and the essences of Divinity have appeared and become visible in them? Therefore it is said in the Koran: "In that day, the earth shall be changed into another earth" (K. S. 14).

Even the material earth is also changed through the breezes of the generosity of that King of Existence, were ye to reflect upon the mysteries of Manifestation!

Comprehend the meaning of the verse: "Since the whole earth shall be but His handful in the Day of Resurrection and the Heavens (shall be) rolled together in His right Hand. Praise be unto Him and far may He be exalted above the (idols) which they associate (with Him)" (K. S. 39). The purport of this verse is that the whole earth is grasped in His Hand in the Day of Judgment and the Heaven is enfolded in His Right Hand.

Now justice is needed! If the purpose be that which the people understand, what good will result from it? Moreover it is certain that a hand visible to the material sight, accomplishing these things, could not be ascribed to The Essence; nay rather, to acknowledge such a thing is pure infidelity and sheer falsehood. If it be said that it is His Manifestations