l which
says: "The Word was with God, and the Word was God";(146) for the divine
perfections are not different from the Essence of Oneness. The perfections
of Christ are called the Word because all the beings are in the condition
of letters, and one letter has not a complete meaning, while the
perfections of Christ have the power of the word because a complete
meaning can be inferred from a word. As the Reality of Christ was the
manifestation of the divine perfections, therefore, it was like the word.
Why? because He is the sum of perfect meanings. This is why He is called
the Word.

And know that the proceeding of the Word and the Holy Spirit from God,
which is the proceeding and appearance of manifestation, must not be
understood to mean that the Reality of Divinity had been divided into
parts, or multiplied, or that it had descended from the exaltation of
holiness and purity. God forbid! If a pure, fine mirror faces the sun, the
light and heat, the form and the image of the sun will be resplendent in
it with such manifestation that if a beholder says of the sun, which is
brilliant and visible in the mirror, "This is the sun," it is true.
Nevertheless, the mirror is the mirror, and the sun is the sun. The One
Sun, even if it appears in numerous mirrors, is one. This state is neither
abiding nor entering, neither commingling nor descending; for entering,
abiding, descending, issuing forth and commingling are the necessities and
characteristics of bodies, not of spirits; then how much less do they
belong to the sanctified and pure Reality of God. God is exempt from all
that is not in accordance with His purity and His exalted and sublime
sanctity.

The Sun of Reality, as we have said, has always been in one condition; it
has no change, no alteration, no transformation and no vicissitude. It is
eternal and everlasting. But the Holy Reality of the Word of God is in the
condition of the pure, fine and shining mirror; the heat, the light, the
image and likeness--that is to say, the perfections of the Sun of
Reality--appear in it. That is why Christ says in the Gospel, "The Father
is in the Son"--that is to say, the Sun of Reality appears in the
mirror.(147) Praise be to the One Who shone upon this Holy Reality, Who is
sanctified among the beings!

55: SOUL, SPIRIT AND MIND

Question.--What is the difference between the mind, spirit and soul?

Answer.--It has been before explained that spirit is universally divi