The Presence of Peace: the Divine Name Peace
When He named Himself Peace for His creation,
Peace was His lofty station,
The ruling among them by whatever He willed,
And might and ancient, towering glory.
Peace is a greeting from our Lord
Within us, and from His Names we hope for peace.
We lag behind His station’s height;
His are precedence, disposal, and the forefront.
When He named Himself Peace for His creation,
The intellects of those among mankind who arrived were bewildered.
(The Gnostic’s Safety and Witnessing the Mirror)
God said, exalted is He, ‘Theirs is the Abode of Peace’ [al-An‘am 6:127], an abode where ‘no weariness touches them’ [al-Hijr 15:48], so they are safe within it.
Know that the gnostic’s safety is his freedom from claiming lordship without qualification, unless its breaths appear upon him when his witnessing is that the Real is all his faculties. Then there is a claim, and his safety at that point is from himself. Through this Peace is named Peace.
When the Companions, God be pleased with them, wished to say—or said—in the testimony of prayer, ‘Peace be upon God,’ as a greeting, the Messenger of God, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, said, ‘Do not say “Peace be upon God,” for God is Peace.’
When the servant, the servant of Peace, is present with the Real in this Presence, with the Real as his mirror, let him consider the forms he sees within it. If he sees the image of his inward reality and meanings shaped in the form of his outward self, he knows he has seen himself and has not attained the degree of one whose faculties are all the Real.
If he sees a form not shaped in a bodily shape, while understanding that there is something that is not his very self, that is a form of the Real. At that time the servant has realized that the Real is his faculties, not himself.
If, in this witnessing, the servant is the mirror itself and the Real discloses Himself within it,
