ncer, another day from the
sign of Libra or Aquarius; another time it is from the sign of Aries that
it diffuses its rays. But the sun is one sun and one reality; the people
of knowledge are lovers of the sun, and are not fascinated by the places
of its rising and dawning. The people of perception are the seekers of the
truth, and not of the places of its appearance, nor of its dawning points;
therefore, they will adore the Sun from whatever point in the zodiac it
may appear, and they will seek the Reality in every Sanctified Soul Who
manifests it. Such people always attain to the truth and are not veiled
from the Sun of the Divine World. So the lover of the sun and the seeker
of the light will always turn toward the sun, whether it shines from the
sign of Aries or gives its bounty from the sign of Cancer, or radiates
from Gemini; but the ignorant and uninstructed are lovers of the signs of
the zodiac, and enamored and fascinated by the rising-places, and not by
the sun. When it was in the sign of Cancer, they turned toward it, though
afterward the sun changed to the sign of Libra; as they were lovers of the
sign, they turned toward it and attached themselves to it, and were
deprived of the influences of the sun merely because it had changed its
place. For example, once the Sun of Reality poured forth its rays from the
sign of Abraham, and then it dawned from the sign of Moses and illuminated
the horizon. Afterward it rose with the greatest power and brilliancy from
the sign of Christ. Those who were the seekers of Reality worshiped that
Reality wherever they saw it, but those who were attached to Abraham were
deprived of its influences when it shone upon Sinai and illuminated the
reality of Moses. Those who held fast to Moses, when the Sun of Reality
shone from Christ with the utmost radiance and lordly splendor, were also
veiled; and so forth.

Therefore, man must be the seeker after the Reality, and he will find that
Reality in each of the Sanctified Souls. He must be fascinated and
enraptured, and attracted to the divine bounty; he must be like the
butterfly who is the lover of the light from whatever lamp it may shine,
and like the nightingale who is the lover of the rose in whatever garden
it may grow.

If the sun were to rise in the West, it would still be the sun; one must
not withdraw from it on account of its rising-place, nor consider the West
to be always the place of sunset. In the same way, one must look f