The Manifested One, insofar as He is in Himself, has one eye, and the manifestations, I mean His forms, differ according to the preparations of the Manifested One for them, as well as in the divine gifts. If you understand this, you know that God’s giving is not forbidden, except that you like Him to give you what your preparation does not accept, and you attribute the prohibition to Him in what you asked of Him, and you did not set your mind to preparation. A person may prepare for a question and not be prepared to accept what he asked about. If instead of a prohibition, he is given it and says, “God has power over all things,” and he believes that, but you ignore the order of divine wisdom in the world and what it gives him the truths of things and everything from God, then his withholding is a gift and his giving is a denial, but It remains for you to learn such-and-such and such-and-such

[ The difference between inspiration, the science of inspiration, and secular knowledge ]

I introduced you to the soul, and that it moves the limbs by what dominates them, either from itself or from what it accepts from the angel or Satan in what he inspires it with. The knowledge of inspiration is to know that God inspired you with what He has entrusted to you, but it remains for you to look at the hands of the one who inspired you and through what path that inspiration came to you from an angel. Or a devil, and whatever comes out of the form of legitimate commands and prohibitions is worldly knowledge. What is inspiration? Knowledge of obedience is inspirational, and knowledge of the results of obedience is worldly. So the difference between worldly knowledge and inspiration.