or these hidden Gems, these concealed and invisible
Treasures, in themselves manifest and vindicate the reality of these holy
words: "Verily God doeth whatsoever He willeth, and ordaineth whatsoever
He pleaseth."

To every discerning and illumined heart it is evident that God, the
unknowable Essence, the divine Being, is immensely exalted beyond every
human attribute, such as corporeal existence, ascent and descent, egress
and regress. Far be it from His glory that human tongue should adequately
recount His praise, or that human heart comprehend His fathomless mystery.
He is and hath ever been veiled in the ancient eternity of His Essence,
and will remain in His Reality everlastingly hidden from the sight of men.
"No vision taketh in Him, but He taketh in all vision; He is the Subtile,
the All-Perceiving."(71) No tie of direct intercourse can possibly bind
Him to His creatures. He standeth exalted beyond and above all separation
and union, all proximity and remoteness. No sign can indicate His presence
or His absence; inasmuch as by a word of His command all that are in
heaven and on earth have come to exist, and by His wish, which is the
Primal Will itself, all have stepped out of utter nothingness into the
realm of being, the world of the visible.

Gracious God! How could there be conceived any existing relationship or
possible connection between His Word and they that are created of it? The
verse: "God would have you beware of Himself"(72) unmistakably beareth
witness to the reality of Our argument, and the words: "God was alone;
there was none else besides Him" are a sure testimony of its truth. All
the Prophets of God and their chosen Ones, all the divines, the sages, and
the wise of every generation, unanimously recognize their inability to
attain unto the comprehension of that Quintessence of all truth, and
confess their incapacity to grasp Him, Who is the inmost Reality of all
things.

The door of the knowledge of the Ancient of Days being thus closed in the
face of all beings, the Source of infinite grace, according to His saying:
"His grace hath transcended all things; My grace hath encompassed them
all" hath caused those luminous Gems of Holiness to appear out of the
realm of the spirit, in the noble form of the human temple, and be made
manifest unto all men, that they may impart unto the world the mysteries
of the unchangeable Being, and tell of the subtleties of His imperishable
Essence. These sanctified