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Perceive accordingly, then, that the Book is the soul of Muhammad in which all the mysteries of the Pen of God, the Help in Peril, the Mighty, the Self-Subsisting, hath been written. To the end that ye may attest that there is none other God but Him, the King, the Help in Peril, the Well-Beloved. Thus hath it been revealed aforetime, “Read the book of thine own self.” This is the Book which bringeth 11 solace to those who place their faith in God and reacheth unto the shore of the Treasured Name. And in another station it referreth to the Book which hath been sent down upon Him according to the divine Reality, and which God hath made to be the criteria with which those who believe and those who reject the faith of their Lord may be justly distinguished. And in yet another station know that God thereby named His Beloved with these composite Letters and composed Words just as ye pronounce in His various names like Muhammad, ‘Aḥmad, and Maḥmúd in the Kingdom of Names. Thus was He named with the extended Letters and disconnected Numerations, that all who hath been in acquaintance with Him aforetime may come to know that every glorious Letter and beautiful Name hath been created for Him, for no single thing shall ever be revealed from the Well Beloved except that He hath truly had His Beloved in mind, this ye shall surely perceive should ye gaze with the Vision of the Spirit. And so that the song which the Nightingale of Eternity hath chanted may be established during the days when ye recite “To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names.” This is that which hath been sent down aforetime and which ye 12 and the greater part of mankind recite during His days.