Know that their saying, “The first principles of manifestation” is a sign that every manifestation has a principle that is a taste for that manifestation, and this does not happen unless the divine manifestation is in the forms or in the divine or cosmic names and nothing else. If the manifestation is in the meaning, then it has its very essence and has no ruling after the principle. Man benefits from it gradually just as he benefits from the meanings of that form in which it is revealed or the meanings of all the names, each one of them, so he sees in the beginning what he does not see of that name after that, and the one who possesses the meaning is the principle of everything itself, so he does not benefit from it after this comprehensive benefit, so he has the right to detail in expressing that matter. The One, which is what is meant by what we say at the beginning of this book

until the glory of His face appeared to the eye *