must be followed, and what the proofs of consideration reject—even though, together with the Revealed Law, they rule that what they reject must be followed in faith and affirmation.
Rational consideration has already judged, through its proof, that this reporter is truthful, that he speaks only from God, and that God is the One saying to this hearer, upon the reporter’s tongue, what he has addressed to him. If he disobeys him, it is insofar as the reporter is his like. Two like things stand opposite one another; the ruling of opposition and contrariety is therefore inevitable, so contravention is inevitable.
If he obeys and complies, it is insofar as the one addressing him is the Real Himself, not his like. He becomes great within the hearer’s self, and the hearer accepts the address. This is precisely the Real’s being Supremely Great—that is, within the self of this servant when he disobeyed Him insofar as he considered his like within the address.
(The Form and the Remedy for Self-Magnification)
As for those who remain with the Divine Form within creation, when God names Himself to them as the Supremely Great, it is a declaration of transcendence concerning the form they possess, and a remedy for the sense of greatness over creatures that arises within their selves. In the address itself this has no remedy other than His saying, “God created Adam upon His form.”
He thus knows that, although he possesses the form, he is a creature and has therefore been distinguished. He cannot assume greatness within himself. Through this, however, the Real becomes great to him within his heart, after this servant had not possessed this attribute. When he adds it to what preceded,
