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44 garden of whose soul will the anemones of Invisible Realities bloom? In a word; the Sadrat of Love in the Sinai of Love is too intensely enkindled to be quenched and exhausted by waters of explanation. Seas fail to allay the thirst of this fish, and this bird of fire can only abide in the fire of the face of the Beloved. Therefore O brother, light the lamp of Spirit with the oil of Wisdom in the recess of the heart and protect it by the glass of Knowledge, that the breath of polytheistic souls may not extinguish it nor prevent its shining.

Thus have We illumined the Horizon of the Heaven of Utterance with the lights of the Suns of Knowledge and Wisdom, so thy heart may thereby be tranquillized and thou mayst become of those who soar upon the wings of assurance in the sky of the love of their Lord the Merciful!

As to the words—"Then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven"—He says that after the eclipse of the Sun of Divine Knowledge and the falling of the stars of the established ordinances,—after the darkening of the Moon of Knowledge—which is the Educator of the servants,—and disappearance of the landmarks of guidance and prosperity, after the morn of faithfulness and peace is obscured, then shall the sign of the Son of Man appear in heaven. By "heaven" is meant the phenomenal heaven. For preceding the appearance of that firmament of the Heavens of Justice and the