And know that had it not been for forms, objects would not have been distinguished, and if it had not been for ranks, the magnitudes of things would not have been known, nor would every form have been assigned its rank, as Aisha said: Place people in their positions, and by rank is the knowledge of the virtuous and the virtuous, and by it a distinction is made between God and the world, and by it the truths of what the divine names are are revealed from the generality of attachment. In particular, let us mention in this chapter the appropriateness of the divine names that we have mentioned to the letters that we have designated and the positions that we have mentioned so that everything is linked to one another. Just as the blind collected the forms of beings, which is the divine soul, so He combined the letters the human soul, just as astronomy combined the stations destined for the descent of the pearls in them, the magnitudes of the zodiac signs in the atlas of astronomy, so we