GhazzdWs Alchemy of Happiness. 



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visible world and its hidden mysteries, without a veil, just 

 as lightning or the celestial rays impress the external eye. 



The second proof of the existence of these windows in 

 the heart, is that no individual is destitute of these spiritual 

 susceptibilities and of the faculty of thought and reflection. 

 For instance every individual knows by inspiration, things 

 which he has neither seen nor heard, though he knows not 

 from whence or by what means he understands them. 

 Still, notwithstanding the heart belongs to the invisible 

 world, so long as it is absorbed in the contemplation of 

 the sensible world, it is shut out and restrained from con- 

 templating the invisible and spiritual world. 



Think not, thou seeker after the divine mysteries ! that 

 the window of the heart is never opened except in sleep 

 and after death. On the contrary, if a person calls into 

 exercise, in perfection, holy zeal and austerities, and puri- 

 fies his heart from the defilement of blameable affections, 

 and then sits down in a retired spot, abandons the use of 

 his external senses, and occupies himself with calling out 

 " O God ! O God ! " his heart will come into harmony with 

 the invisible world, he will no longer receive notions from 

 the material world, and nothing will be present in his heart 

 but the exalted God. In this revelation of the invisible 

 world, the windows of the heart are opened, and what 

 others may have seen in a dream, he in this state sees in 

 reality. The spirits of angels and prophets are manifested 

 to him and he holds intercourse with them. The hidden 

 things of earth and heaven are uncovered to him, and to 

 whomsoever these things are revealed, mighty wonders are 

 shown, that are beyond description. As the prophet of 

 God says : " I turned towards the earth, and I saw the 

 east and the west." And God says in his word : " And 

 thus we caused Abraham to see the kingdom of heaven 

 and earth," 1 which is an example of this kind of revelation. 



S.6:75. 



