"They who soar in the heaven of singleness and reach to the sea of the Absolute, reckon this city—which is the station of life in God—as the furthermost state of mystic knowers, and the farthest homeland of the lovers. But to this evanescent One of the mystic ocean, this station is the first gate of the heart’s citadel, that is, man’s first entrance to the city of the heart; and the heart is endowed with four stages, which would be recounted should a kindred soul be found.
When the pen set to picturing this station,
It broke in pieces and the page was torn.
13
Salám!
14"
-Bahá'u'lláh,
The Seven Valleys And the Four Valley; The Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness p. 41
13. Persian mystic poem.
14. “Peace.” This word is used in concluding a thesis.
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