The Book of Akbar 228.4

228.4

'Twas holy light breaking forth from its ambushes by the instrumentality of this nursling of Fortune's garden. Of a truth, the veil of distance can be no hindrance to what is eternally conjoined, nor apparent remoteness any impediment to spiritual propinquity. And when we consider the matter what room is there for remoteness? For, in this firstling of Life's rosebush there is perfect contact with the Primaeval, and the diffusive lights of being, the perfecting (takmil) of the bodily frame, and the burnishing (tasqil) of the senses assume form pari passu (darja ba darja). And there is close relation with the glorious world of the Holy and the Absolute to whose verge there is no entrance for the darkness of ignorance, or the plethora of heedlessness. Nor is it hidden from those who can look far into the world of mystery that though this sublime Master seemeth to have been engendered amid bodily elements and from protoplasm (mawadd-i-hayyulani) yet as regards the source of his nature and the root of his being his forefathers and foremothers have been procreated from him so that spiritually and in an esoteric sense he is the Father of Fathers.