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What is the Ascension's wisdom?
Answer: The wisdom here is so elevated that human minds cannot reach
it, so profound that human minds cannot comprehend it, and so subtle and fine
that the intellect cannot grasp it. However, even if we cannot know its wisdom
or the exact Divine purposes for it, some indications allow us to show the
existence of several purposes. They are as follows.
To show the light of His Unity presented as the manifestation of all His
Names throughout the universe, as well as His Oneness presented as the
concentrated manifestation of some or all of His Names on a certain thing, the
Creator of this universe distinguished an eminent individual with an Ascension
in the form of a link between the Realm of Multiplicity and Corporeality's
furthest limit and the Dominion of Pure Unity and spirituality's starting point.
Addressing him on behalf of all creatures, He explained all Divine purposes to
him in the name of conscious beings, and made them known through him. He also
willed to observe through his sight His art's beauty and His Lordship's
perfection in the mirrors of His creatures and to cause them to be observed by
others.
Furthermore, His works testify that the Maker of the world has infinite
beauty and perfection, both of which are loved because of themselves. Thus the
One with infinite beauty and perfection has a boundless love for His Beauty and
Perfection, a love that manifests itself in the works of His art, which He loves
because He sees His Beauty and Perfection in them. The most lovable and elevated
of His works of art are animate beings. The most lovable and elevated animate
beings are conscious beings. By virtue of their comprehensiveness, the most
lovable conscious beings are found among humanity. The most loveable person is
the one who has developed his or her potentiality most fully and manifested the
samples of the perfections observed in all creatures.
To see at one point and in one mirror all manifestations of His Love
pervading all creatures, and to display all varieties of His Beauty focused on
one individual, the Maker of beings chose one person, an illustrious,
enlightened fruit of the Tree of Creation, one whose heart is like a seed
containing that tree's essential elements. To demonstrate how He loves that
individual in the name of the universe, He drew him to His Presence through an
Ascension, which is like a thread linking the seed (the origin) with the fruit
(the end), and honored him with the vision of His Essential Beauty. So that
others could imitate his holiness and excellence, He favored him with His Word
and entrusted Him with His Decree.
To understand this exalted wisdom, consider the comparisons below.
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