‘Connection’: Mentioning the Sciences within This Abode
Among them is knowledge of cosmic connection and divine and cosmic separation. It contains knowledge of the Real's transcendence beyond the motion and transition involved in descent and being-with, while descent and being-with are affirmed.
(Books, Faith, and Ranks)
It contains knowledge of the distinction between Books sent down from God, although all are God's speech. Why have they become many, with numerous verses and suras: because they are speech, or because they are spoken?
It contains knowledge of people's division into those believing a certain thing and those not believing it; knowledge of the Highest Assembly; knowledge of terms; knowledge of the wisdom of giving preference within the world; knowledge of producing branches from a single origin; and knowledge of the speaker's saying:
It is no extraordinary thing for God / To gather the world within one.
(The Perfect Human Being, Origin, and Return)
This is the knowledge of the Perfect Human Being, gathering the world's realities and the form of the Real, glorified and exalted is He.
It contains knowledge of the difference between origin and return. What does return mean: an existent affair, or a relation of rank, like a governor dismissed and then restored to his governance?
