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72 indicates and points to the Divine Knowledge, until the appearances of (His) Attributes and Names have encompassed all the seen and the unseen. Thus it is said: " Is there any appearance in aught else save Thee, which is not of Thee, that it could have brought Thee forth? Blind is the eye which doth not behold Thee! " It is also said by the King of Eternity: "I have seen no thing except I beheld God in it, before it or after it." Also in the tradition of Comeil " The Light which shone forth from the Morn of Eternity, the traces of which gleam upon the Temples of Unity." Man, the most noble and perfect of the creatures, is a mightier evidence and greater expression than the other visible things. The most perfect, superior and excellent of men are the Manifestations of the Sun of Truth; nay rather, all else save them exist only through their desire and move by their generosity. " Were it not for Thee (Mohammed), I would not have created the firmaments." Nay, all are mere nothingness and absolute non-existence before their court of holiness; their mention is purified from mention of others, and their description is sanctified above description of all else. These Holy Temples are the Eternal Primal Mirrors which express the Invisible of the Invisibles and all His Names and Attributes, such as Knowledge, Power, Dominion, Grandeur, Mercy, Wisdom, Glory, Generosity and