the light of My beauty may appear therein and be reflected in the mirrors
of all the worlds. Thus have We singled Thee out above all that hath been
created in the heavens and the earth, and above all that hath been decreed
in the realms of revelation and creation, and chosen Thee for Our own
Self. This is but an evidence of the bounty which God hath vouchsafed unto
Thee, a bounty which shall last until the Day that hath no end in this
contingent world. It shall endure so long as God, the Supreme King, the
Help in Peril, the Mighty, the Wise, shall endure. For the Day of God is
none other but His own Self, Who hath appeared with the power of truth.
This is the Day that shall not be followed by night, nor shall it be
bounded by any praise, would that ye might understand!

64 O Breast of this Temple! We, verily, have caused all things to mirror
forth thy reality, and made thee as a mirror of Our own Self. Shed, then,
upon the breasts of all created beings the splendours of the light of thy
Lord, that they may be freed from all allusions and limitations. Thus hath
the Daystar of wisdom shone forth above the horizon of the Pen of the
Eternal King. Blessed are those who perceive it! Through thee have We
created other sanctified breasts, and unto thee shall We cause them to
return, as a token of Our grace unto thee and unto Our favoured servants.
Erelong shall We bring into being through thee men with sanctified and
illumined breasts, who will testify to naught save My beauty and show
forth naught but the resplendent light of My countenance. These shall in
truth be the mirrors of My Names amidst all created things.

65 O Temple of Holiness! We, verily, have made Thine inmost heart the
treasury of all the knowledge of past and future ages, and the
dawning-place of Our own knowledge which We have ordained for the dwellers
of earth and heaven, that all creation may partake of the outpourings of
Thy grace and may attain, through the wonders of Thy knowledge, unto the