all at once, for this would entail confinement, whereas we have said it is endless. He knows only one thing after another without end.
This is among the most wondrous divine secrets: that what is endless enters the servant’s existence, just as endless objects of knowledge enter the Real’s knowledge, while His knowledge is His very essence.
The difference between the attachment of the Real’s knowledge to what is endless and the Real’s depositing what is endless within the servant’s heart is that the Real knows what is within Himself and within His servant’s self distinctly and in detail. The servant knows it only in general. There is no generality in the Real’s knowledge of things, although He knows generality insofar as generality is something the servant knows from himself and from another.
Everything the human being continually knows—and every existent—is in reality only recollection and renewal of what he forgot.
(Recollection and the Beginning of Knowledge)
This Abode rules that at some time the Real established the servant in the station of his knowledge’s attachment to what is endless. This is not impossible in our view. What is impossible is what is endless entering existence, not knowledge’s attachment to it.
Then God made creation forget this, just as He made them forget their testimony to lordship when the covenant was taken, although it occurred. We know this through divine informing. The human being’s knowledge is thus always recollection.
Some among us, when reminded, remember that they had known that object of knowledge and forgotten it,
