And when he saw the sun, the spirit, shining prominent, by its self-disclosure to him and the manifestation of its light, he found that his effusion, his presential vision and his lordship as issuing from it [the spirit], for God, exalted be He, was now showing him through His name[s] the Witness, the Sublime and the Tremendous; he said, 'This is my Lord; this is greater!', because of its tremendousness and the intensity of its luminosity. But when it set, as a result of the dominance of the lights of the self-disclosure of the Truth and the rising of the august glories of the Abiding Face and the unveiling of the veil of the Essence upon his arrival at the station of unity, he saw that to look upon the spirit and his own existence was an act of idolatrous association, and so, he said, 'O my people, surely I am innocent of what you associate, with Him, that is, whatever that thing be, since there is no existence other than His.
