Translations:Otuz Birinci Söz/282/en

Similarly, although the All-Glorious One, Who is the Sun of Pre-Eternity and Post- Eternity, is closer to everything than anything else, everything is infinitely distant from Him. Only one who traverses all beings, rises above particularity and gradually passes through the thousands of veils in the degrees of universality till he approaches a Divine Name which encompasses all beings, and then traverses the many degrees beyond it, may be honoured by a sort of Divine proximity.