Elucidation of Objectives — Page 65
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 65 printed on the heart of the true lover and becomes an inseparable attribute of true love. At this level, it is able to perform the functions of the ear for hearing the voice of God and those of the eyes for beholding His won- ders. It provides vital energy to the wheel, as it were, of the tongue to enable it to articulate the revealed word and stimulates it—the tongue to move at great speed along the revealed lines. Without this power, the human heart is as good as blind, and the tongue is like a rail- way train without a locomotive. Remember, this force or the élan vital known as R uh ul Qudus is not always of the same strength and quality when it visits hearts. Rather, just as human love is either perfect or imperfect, the influence exerted on it by the angelic light of Gabriel too is proportionate to its quality. Remember! this power and strength of R uh ul Qudus , which is consequential to the union of the two loves is born in the human heart as a result of the reflection of the angelic light of Gabriel. Its existence does not require that the recipient should be hearing the Holy Word of God all the time or have spiritual visions constantly. Instead, such phenomena are rather like immediate causes for the perception of heavenly light. In a manner of speaking, it is something from God, a kind of light for spiritual eyes, or a kind of spiritual air for communicating sound to spiritual ears. It is also quite clear that unless there is something to see, light