This consists of four short Signs alluding to Divine Unity.

F i r s t S i g n

O worshipper of causes! You see a wondrous palace fashioned of rare jewels which is being made. Some of the jewels used in its construction are only found in China; others in Andalusia; others in Yemen; while others are found nowhere but Siberia. If you see that as it is being made, the precious stones are summoned the same day from north, south, east, and west, would you have any doubt that the master builder making the palace was a miracle-worker who ruled the whole earth?

Thus, every animal is a Divine palace such as that. Particularly man, he is the finest and most wondrous of the palaces. Some of the jewels of this palace called man come from the World of Spirits, some from the World of Similitudes and the Preserved Tablet, and others from the world of the air, the world of Light, and the world of the elements. And so too he is a wondrous palace whose needs stretch to eternity, whose hopes have spread to all the regions of the heavens and the earth, and who has relations and ties with all the epochs of this world and the Hereafter.

And so, O you who considers himself to be a true man! Since your true nature is thus, the one who made you can only be One for Whom this world and the Hereafter are each a dwelling, the earth and the skies each a page, and Who has disposal over pre-eternity and post-eternity as though they were yesterday and tomorrow. In which case, man’s true object of worship, place of recourse, and saviour can only be the One Who rules the earth and the heavens, and holds the reins of this world and the next.