The Book of Akbar 8.1

8.1

It is not hidden from the mirror-hearts of the quick-sighted and far-seeing—who know the mysteries of truth, and who show forth the secrets behind the divine veils, and are curtain-openers of elemental [i.e., terrestrial and celestial] mysteries—that the profound wisdom and secret power of the Creator ordain that it is by the weddings of heavenly sires with earthly mothers, and after various cycles of lunar aspects, and of applications, of syzygies and oppositions of the sun and moon, of conjunctions of the superior and inferior planets, risings and settings, appearances and disappearances of stars, lunar and solar eclipses, qualities of exaltations and falls, influences of zeniths and nadirs, and the like, (which are architects in the workshop of production and change, and artists in the picture-gallery of invention and contrivance) that the unique one comes forth from the secret inner chambers into the palace of manifestation. and that Unity emerges from the veiled ones of the cabinet of non-existence and displays its glory in the sublime assembly of Being, to be the cause of the arrangement of the Universe and the means of discriminating between justice and oppression throughout the world. How can arrangement result from simple matter?