Nearness to it is drawing near,
and with it no remoteness is remote.
Do not say it has reached an end:
it has no limit within existence.
Through it you are distinguished from Him, so consider:
the Lord is Lord, and the servant is servant.
Whoever knows the cause of the world’s existence, and the Real’s describing Himself as having loved to be known, so that He created creation and made Himself known to them and they knew Him—for this reason everything glorifies His praise—knows from this the first object to which mercy attached. The lover is shown mercy because of love’s necessary consequences and traces.
(Self-Disclosure and the Universality of Mercy)
Know that the judgment upon God is always according to the form in which He discloses Himself. Whatever attribute that form properly receives, the Real is described by it and describes Himself by it. This is generally so: when someone sees the Real in a dream in a form, whatever form it may be, he attributes to Him the attributes entailed by that form in which he saw Him. No one denies this in sleep.
Among the men of God are those who perceive that form while awake, but it is in the presence
