bringing what it received from Him into forms to manifest some entity among intelligible, sensible or imaginal possibles, three ranks appeared to it in openings of unveiling through the Real, not openings of sweetness or expression. One is freedom, whose chapter preceded, freeing it from engendered things’ bondage, for this seeking through ignorance had enslaved it. God knew this would not occur, while it knew neither what God’s knowledge held nor how the affair stood.
If it assumes this station and appears through this state, God enables what it wills, bestowing the power of bringing into existence. If unable to assume this station, it is still less able concerning its state, for the state is a divine bestowal and the station acquired.
It then turns to the second rank, in the ordering of ruling and witnessing. The Real stands before it within self-disclosure of the One Sought by All. If it can look upon Him within it, remain firm before His disclosure, and is neither a mountain to become crushed nor Mosaic to swoon, it gains what it asked of God: effect through its form according to its readiness, when God enables its ruling within it.
If Mosaic or a mountain, it does not remain firm before this self-disclosure, annihilating those whose readiness seeks annihilation and destroying those whose readiness seeks destruction,
