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And as for what you asked about God’s word (mighty and glorious is He) regarding the command for the angels to prostrate and Iblis’s pride, where He said (exalted and glorified is He): “Were you arrogant, or were you among the exalted ones?”—observe with the eye of origination that God has created in all things three signs from Himself: a sign of the nobility of the Family of God, and verily they are the exalted ones; and a sign from His angels, which is the condition of true servitude in every station according to its reality; and a sign from His absolute Divinity for preserving His worlds in what they have accepted for themselves without command or compulsion.

So take the meaning of the verse from the Primal Will to the ultimate station of dominion. “And all the angels prostrated to Adam except Iblis, who alone transgressed…” And if today you alone should acknowledge this Cause while all who are on earth reject it, this would be confirmed in your right…

Know then the allusion, for it has been sent down from behind seventy thousand veils.