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of perfection which is attained by completing the series
of stations. It is described as wrought, because God’s
manifestation to us by means of ourselves is actual, whereas
His manjfcstation to us by means of Himself is not.
12. Idris tj'pifies the speculative theologian.
13. ‘ Her couch,’ i.e. her lofty degree.
‘ Her mind ’ : U for JU (mind), because ^ (*b), the second
letter of the alphabet, signifies Universal Reason, which is the
second category of Being.
15. ‘ From the flowers o f thy lowlands,’ i.e. the station of
Divine Revelation which descends in the Sunna
of the Apostle and in the revealed scriptures.
‘ The flowers of the hills,’ i.e. the most inaccessible veil of
the Divine glory.
16. Man seeks God in want and in de.'^ire to receive,
whereas God seeks Man in wealth and in desire to give.
17. ‘ The zephyr’s breeze,’ etc., i.e. the sciences wafted into
the heart from the revelation and manifestation of God in
diverse stations.
18. ‘ At the sand-hills,’ i.e. the mount of Vision.
‘ Where the vale bends,’ i.e. the station of Mei'cy, which
allows the human essence to subsist ‘ beside the guarded
pasture ’, i.e. at the manifestation of the Divine essence.
‘ At La‘la‘,’ i.e. in the frenzy of love.
19. Do not Avonder at a thing which yearns for its
original home.
20. ‘ A turtle-doA’o,’ i.e. the soul of a gnostic like himself,
who.se sublime utterance excites in him a longing for God.
1. In the v.alley-curve between the two stony tracts is the
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try sting-place. Make our camels kneel, for here is
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the journc3’^s end.
2. Do not seek (anj' other spot) and do not call after this,
‘ 0 Bilriq ! O Htljir! O Thnhmad I ’
3. And play as friendly’’ full-breasted damsels plaj'ed, and
pasture as shy gazelles pastured

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