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• 11:17, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail90 (Created page with "O Shaykh! Make of thine effort a glass, perchance it may shelter this flame from the contrary winds; albeit this light doth long to be kindled in the lamp of the Lord, and to shine in the globe of the spirit. For the head raised up in the love of God will certainly fall by the sword, and the life that is kindled with longing will surely be sacrificed, and the heart which remembereth the Loved One will surely brim with blood. How well is it said: Live free of love, for...")
• 11:16, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail89 (Created page with "Salám! O My friend! Many a hound pursueth this gazelle of the desert of oneness; many a talon claweth at this thrush of the eternal garden. Pitiless ravens do lie in wait for this bird of the heavens of God, and the huntsman of envy stalketh this deer of the meadow of love.")
• 11:15, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail88 (Created page with "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...")
• 11:14, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail87 (Created page with "These journeys have no visible ending in the world of time, but the severed wayfarer—if invisible confirmation descend upon him and the Guardian of the Cause assist him—may cross these seven stages in seven steps, nay rather in seven breaths, nay rather in a single breath, if God will and desire it. And this is of “His grace on such of His servants as He pleaseth.”")
• 11:13, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail86 (Created page with "If any of the utterances of this Servant may not be comprehended, or may lead to perturbation, the same must be inquired of again, that no doubt may linger, and the meaning be clear as the Face of the Beloved One shining from the “Glorious Station.”")
• 11:12, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail85 (Created page with "In all these journeys the traveler must stray not the breadth of a hair from the “Law,” for this is indeed the secret of the “Path” and the fruit of the Tree of “Truth”; and in all these stages he must cling to the robe of obedience to the commandments, and hold fast to the cord of shunning all forbidden things, that he may be nourished from the cup of the Law and informed of the mysteries of Truth.")
• 11:09, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail84 (Created page with "In this Valley, the wayfarer leaveth behind him the stages of the “oneness of Being and Manifestation” and reacheth a oneness that is sanctified above these two stations. Ecstasy alone can encompass this theme, not utterance nor argument; and whosoever hath dwelt at this stage of the journey, or caught a breath from this garden land, knoweth whereof We speak.")
• 11:09, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail83 (Created page with "In this city, even the veils of light are split asunder and vanish away. “His beauty hath no veiling save light, His face no covering save revelation.” How strange that while the Beloved is visible as the sun, yet the heedless still hunt after tinsel and base metal. Yea, the intensity of His revelation hath covered Him, and the fullness of His shining forth hath hidden Him. Even as the sun, bright hath He shined, But alas, He hath come to the town of the blind!")
• 11:02, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail82 (Created page with "Now hast thou abandoned the drop of life and come to the sea of the Life-Bestower. This is the goal thou didst ask for; if it be God’s will, thou wilt gain it.")
• 11:01, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail81 (Created page with "O Brother! Not every sea hath pearls; not every branch will flower, nor will the nightingale sing thereon. Then, ere the nightingale of the mystic paradise repair to the garden of God, and the rays of the heavenly morning return to the Sun of Truth—make thou an effort, that haply in this dustheap of the mortal world thou mayest catch a fragrance from the everlasting garden, and live forever in the shadow of the peoples of this city. And when thou hast attained this hig...")
• 10:57, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Page5 (Created page with "{{paragraphs13|Seven_Valleys|Persian|Gail|GPT4_|offset=80}}")
• 10:55, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail80 (Created page with "O My friend, listen with heart and soul to the songs of the spirit, and treasure them as thine own eyes. For the heavenly wisdoms, like the clouds of spring, will not rain down on the earth of men’s hearts forever; and though the grace of the All-Bounteous One is never stilled and never ceasing, yet to each time and era a portion is allotted and a bounty set apart, this in a given measure. “And no one thing is there, but with Us are its storehouses; and We send it no...")
• 10:53, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail79 (Created page with "This is the plane whereon the vestiges of all things (Kullu Shay’) are destroyed in the traveler, and on the horizon of eternity the Divine Face riseth out of the darkness, and the meaning of “All on the earth shall pass away, but the face of thy Lord....” is made manifest.")
• 10:52, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail78 (Created page with "This state is that poverty of which it is said, “Poverty is My glory.” And of inward and outward poverty there is many a stage and many a meaning which I have not thought pertinent to mention here; hence I have reserved these for another time, dependent on what God may desire and fate may seal.")
• 10:50, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail77 (Created page with "He who hath attained this station is sanctified from all that pertaineth to the world. Wherefore, if those who have come to the sea of His presence are found to possess none of the limited things of this perishable world, whether it be outer wealth or personal opinions, it mattereth not. For whatever the creatures have is limited by their own limits, and whatever the True One hath is sanctified therefrom; this utterance must be deeply pondered that its purport may be cle...")
• 10:49, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail76 (Created page with "After scaling the high summits of wonderment the wayfarer cometh to The Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness This station is the dying from self and the living in God, the being poor in self and rich in the Desired One. Poverty as here referred to signifieth being poor in the things of the created world, rich in the things of God’s world. For when the true lover and devoted friend reacheth to the presence of the Beloved, the sparkling beauty of the Loved One...")
• 10:48, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail75 (Created page with "The pen groaneth and the ink sheddeth tears, and the river of the heart moveth in waves of blood. “Nothing can befall us but what God hath destined for us.” Peace be upon him who followeth the Right Path!")
• 10:47, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail74 (Created page with "In sum, there is no end to the description of these stages, but because of the wrongs inflicted by the peoples of the earth, this Servant is in no mood to continue: The tale is still unfinished and I have no heart for it— Then pray forgive me.")
• 10:46, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail73 (Created page with "O friend, the heart is the dwelling of eternal mysteries, make it not the home of fleeting fancies; waste not the treasure of thy precious life in employment with this swiftly passing world. Thou comest from the world of holiness—bind not thine heart to the earth; thou art a dweller in the court of nearness—choose not the homeland of the dust.")
• 10:46, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail72 (Created page with "Thus, too, Luqmán, who had drunk from the wellspring of wisdom and tasted of the waters of mercy, in proving to his son Nathan the planes of resurrection and death, advanced the dream as an evidence and an example. We relate it here, that through this evanescent Servant a memory may endure of that youth of the school of Divine Unity, that elder of the art of instruction and the Absolute. He said: “O Son, if thou art able not to sleep, then thou art able not to die. An...")
• 10:44, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail71 (Created page with "Then we must labor to destroy the animal condition, till the meaning of humanity shall come to light.")
• 10:43, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail70 (Created page with "Likewise, reflect upon the perfection of man’s creation, and that all these planes and states are folded up and hidden away within him. Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form When within thee the universe is folded?")
• 10:43, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail69 (Created page with "All these states are to be witnessed in the Valley of Wonderment, and the traveler at every moment seeketh for more, and is not wearied. Thus the Lord of the First and the Last in setting forth the grades of contemplation, and expressing wonderment hath said: “O Lord, increase my astonishment at Thee!”")
• 10:42, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail68 (Created page with "God, the Exalted, hath placed these signs in men, to the end that philosophers may not deny the mysteries of the life beyond nor belittle that which hath been promised them. For some hold to reason and deny whatever the reason comprehendeth not, and yet weak minds can never grasp the matters which we have related, but only the Supreme, Divine Intelligence can comprehend them: How can feeble reason encompass the Qur’án, Or the spider snare a phoenix in his web?")
• 10:41, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail67 (Created page with "Now there are many wisdoms to ponder in the dream, which none but the people of this Valley can comprehend in their true elements. First, what is this world, where without eye and ear and hand and tongue a man puts all of these to use? Second, how is it that in the outer world thou seest today the effect of a dream, when thou didst vision it in the world of sleep some ten years past? Consider the difference between these two worlds and the mysteries which they conceal, t...")
• 10:39, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail66 (Created page with "Indeed, O Brother, if we ponder each created thing, we shall witness a myriad perfect wisdoms and learn a myriad new and wondrous truths. One of the created phenomena is the dream. Behold how many secrets are deposited therein, how many wisdoms treasured up, how many worlds concealed. Observe, how thou art asleep in a dwelling, and its doors are barred; on a sudden thou findest thyself in a far-off city, which thou enterest without moving thy feet or wearying thy body; w...")
• 10:36, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail65 (Created page with "After journeying through the planes of pure contentment, the traveler cometh to The Valley of Wonderment and is tossed in the oceans of grandeur, and at every moment his wonder groweth. Now he seeth the shape of wealth as poverty itself, and the essence of freedom as sheer impotence. Now is he struck dumb with the beauty of the All-Glorious; again is he wearied out with his own life. How many a mystic tree hath this whirlwind of wonderment snatched by the roots, how many...")
• 10:35, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail64 (Created page with "O friend, till thou enter the garden of such mysteries, thou shalt never set lip to the undying wine of this Valley. And shouldst thou taste of it, thou wilt shield thine eyes from all things else, and drink of the wine of contentment; and thou wilt loose thyself from all things else, and bind thyself to Him, and throw thy life down in His path, and cast thy soul away. However, there is no other in this region that thou need forget: “There was God and there was naught...")
• 10:34, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail63 (Created page with "The tongue faileth in describing these three Valleys, and speech falleth short. The pen steppeth not into this region, the ink leaveth only a blot. In these planes, the nightingale of the heart hath other songs and secrets, which make the heart to stir and the soul to clamor, but this mystery of inner meaning may be whispered only from heart to heart, confided only from breast to breast. Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers; No messenger can tell i...")
• 10:32, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail62 (Created page with "Although to outward view, the wayfarers in this Valley may dwell upon the dust, yet inwardly they are throned in the heights of mystic meaning; they eat of the endless bounties of inner significances, and drink of the delicate wines of the spirit. The tongue faileth in describing these three Valleys, and speech falleth short. The pen steppeth not into this region, the ink leaveth only a blot. In these planes, the nightingale of the heart hath other songs and secrets, whi...")
• 10:30, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail61 (Created page with "And the wayfarer, after traversing the high planes of this supernal journey, entereth The Valley of Contentment In this Valley he feeleth the winds of divine contentment blowing from the plane of the spirit. He burneth away the veils of want, and with inward and outward eye, perceiveth within and without all things the day of: “God will compensate each one out of His abundance.” From sorrow he turneth to bliss, from anguish to joy. His grief and mourning yield to del...")
• 10:28, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Page4 (Created page with "{{paragraphs20|Seven_Valleys|Persian|Gail|GPT4_|offset=60}} Next page ->")
• 10:25, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail60 (Created page with "Peace be upon him who concludeth this exalted journey and followeth the True One by the lights of guidance.")
• 10:24, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail59 (Created page with "Thus it hath been made clear that these stages depend on the vision of the wayfarer. In every city he will behold a world, in every Valley reach a spring, in every meadow hear a song. But the falcon of the mystic heaven hath many a wondrous carol of the spirit in His breast, and the Persian bird keepeth in His soul many a sweet Arab melody; yet these are hidden, and hidden shall remain. If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter, And if I write, many a pen will break.")
• 10:21, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail58 (Created page with "O thou dear one! Impoverish thyself, that thou mayest enter the high court of riches; and humble thy body, that thou mayest drink from the river of glory, and attain to the full meaning of the poems whereof thou hadst asked.")
• 10:21, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail57 (Created page with "O my friend, look upon thyself: Hadst thou not become a father nor begotten a son, neither wouldst thou have heard these sayings. Now forget them all, that thou mayest learn from the Master of Love in the schoolhouse of oneness, and return unto God, and forsake the inner land of unreality for thy true station, and dwell within the shadow of the tree of knowledge.")
• 10:19, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail56 (Created page with "These statements are made in the sphere of that which is relative, because of the limitations of men. Otherwise, those personages who in a single step have passed over the world of the relative and the limited, and dwelt on the fair plane of the Absolute, and pitched their tent in the worlds of authority and command—have burned away these relativities with a single spark, and blotted out these words with a drop of dew. And they swim in the sea of the spirit, and soar i...")
• 10:17, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail55 (Created page with "Although a brief example hath been given concerning the beginning and ending of the relative world, the world of attributes, yet a second illustration is now added, that the full meaning may be manifest. For instance, let thine Eminence consider his own self; thou art first in relation to thy son, last in relation to thy father. In thine outward appearance, thou tellest of the appearance of power in the realms of divine creation; in thine inward being thou revealest the...")
• 10:15, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail54 (Created page with "Otherwise, this Servant regardeth Himself as utterly lost and as nothing, even beside one of the beloved of God, how much less in the presence of His holy ones. Exalted be My Lord, the Supreme! Moreover, our aim is to recount the stages of the wayfarer’s journey, not to set forth the conflicting utterances of the mystics.")
• 10:12, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail50 (Created page with "Secrets are many, but strangers are myriad. Volumes will not suffice to hold the mystery of the Beloved One, nor can it be exhausted in these pages, although it be no more than a word, no more than a sign. “Knowledge is a single point, but the ignorant have multiplied it.”")
• 10:10, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail49 (Created page with "Then it is clear that even for the rays there is neither entrance nor exit—how much less for that Essence of Being and that longed-for Mystery. O My Brother, journey upon these planes in the spirit of search, not in blind imitation. A true wayfarer will not be kept back by the bludgeon of words nor debarred by the warning of allusions. How shall a curtain part the lover and the loved one? Not Alexander’s wall can separate them!")
• 10:09, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail48 (Created page with "In like manner, when thou strippest the wrappings of illusion from off thine heart, the lights of oneness will be made manifest.")
• 10:08, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail47 (Created page with "Yea, these mentionings that have been made of the grades of knowledge relate to the knowledge of the Manifestations of that Sun of Reality, which casteth Its light upon the Mirrors. And the splendor of that light is in the hearts, yet it is hidden under the veilings of sense and the conditions of this earth, even as a candle within a lantern of iron, and only when the lantern is removed doth the light of the candle shine out.")
• 10:06, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail46 (Created page with "Wherefore, the lovers of the face of the Beloved have said: “O Thou, the One Whose Essence alone showeth the way to His Essence, and Who is sanctified above any likeness to His creatures.” How can utter nothingness gallop its steed in the field of preexistence, or a fleeting shadow reach to the everlasting sun? The Friend hath said, “But for Thee, we had not known Thee,” and the Beloved** hath said, “nor attained Thy presence.”")
• 10:05, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail45 (Created page with "However, let none construe these utterances to be anthropomorphism, nor see in them the descent of the worlds of God into the grades of the creatures; nor should they lead thine Eminence to such assumptions. For God is, in His Essence, holy above ascent and descent, entrance and exit; He hath through all eternity been free of the attributes of human creatures, and ever will remain so. No man hath ever known Him; no soul hath ever found the pathway to His Being. Every mys...")
• 10:04, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail44 (Created page with "Whensoever the light of Manifestation of the King of Oneness settleth upon the throne of the heart and soul, His shining becometh visible in every limb and member. At that time the mystery of the famed tradition gleameth out of the darkness: “A servant is drawn unto Me in prayer until I answer him; and when I have answered him, I become the ear wherewith he heareth....” For thus the Master of the house hath appeared within His home, and all the pillars of the dwellin...")
• 10:01, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail43 (Created page with "O My Brother! A pure heart is as a mirror; cleanse it with the burnish of love and severance from all save God, that the true sun may shine within it and the eternal morning dawn. Then wilt thou clearly see the meaning of “Neither doth My earth nor My heaven contain Me, but the heart of My faithful servant containeth Me.”** And thou wilt take up thy life in thine hand, and with infinite longing cast it before the new Beloved One.")
• 09:57, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail42 (Created page with "As the wayfarers traverse these three differing planes, their understanding and their words differ accordingly, and hence the sign of conflict hath ever appeared on earth. For there are some who dwell on the plane of Divine Unity and speak of that world, and some inhabit the realms of limitation, and some the grades of self, while others are completely veiled. Thus do the ignorant people of the day, who have no share of the radiance of the divine Beauty, make certain cla...")
• 09:56, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail41 (Created page with "In sum, the differences in objects have now been made plain. Thus when the wayfarer gazeth only upon the place of appearance—that is, when he seeth only the many-colored globes—he beholdeth yellow and red and white; hence it is that conflict hath prevailed among the creatures, and a darksome dust from limited souls hath hid the world. And some do gaze upon the effulgence of the light; and some have drunk of the wine of oneness and these see nothing but the sun itself.")
• 09:44, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 40 (Created page with "Indeed, the unpleasant person finds even a sweet scent distasteful, and the accursed does not appreciate the fragrance of good fruit. This is why it is said for the guidance of the common people: Remove the cold from your brain and nose, So that the scent of God may enter your senses.")