selves to be Flower, Droplet, and Atom. For the consciousness which we suppose them to have is insufficient. We must add our reasoning faculties to theirs. That is to say, just as they receive effulgence from their physical sun, we too shall receive effulgence from our immaterial sun, and must understand it.

My friend, who has not forgotten the world, is preoccupied with materiality, and whose soul is dense! You be Flower. Flower takes on a colour dissolved from the sun’s light, and it mixes the sun’s image in with that colour and clothes itself in an adorned form. For your capacity resembles it as well. Then let this philosopher who has studied secular science and is plunged in causes like the Old Said be Droplet, which is enamoured of the moon. For the moon affords him the shadow of light it has received from the sun, and it gives a light to the pupil of his eye. Droplet too shines with the light, but he can only see the moon with it, he cannot see the sun. Rather, he can only see it through his belief. Then, let this poor man be Atom, who knows everything to be directly from Almighty God and looks on causes as veils. He is such an Atom that knows himself to be poor in his own self. He has nothing on which to depend so as to rely on himself like Flower. He possesses no colour that he should appear through it. He does not recognize other things that he should turn towards them. He has a sheer purity by which he holds the sun’s image directly in the pupil of his eye. Now, since we have taken the place of these three things, we must consider ourselves. What do we have? What must we do?

Thus, we look and see that through his favours a Most Munificent One is adorning, illuminating, and nurturing us. Now, man worships one who bestows favours on him. He wants to be close to one worthy of worship, and desires to see him. In which case, in accordance with our capacities, each of us journeys through the attraction of that love. You who is like Flower, you are going, but go as a flower. See, you have gone. You have advanced and advanced till you have reached a universal degree, as though you have become like all flowers. But Flower is a dense mirror; it dissolves and refracts the seven colours in light; it conceals the sun’s reflection. You will not be successful in seeing the face of the sun which you love, for the colours and characteristics, which are restricted, disperse it, draw a veil over it and obscure it. In this situation, you cannot be saved from the separation which occurs with the interposing of barriers. However, you can be saved on one condition, which is that you raise your head, which is sunk in love of your own soul, and withdraw your gaze, which glories and takes pleasure in its own merits, and cast it at the face of the sun in the sky. But on condition you turn your face looking down to the earth to gain your