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Bowl of Saqi for February 9
LOVE BROUGHT MAN FROM THE WORLD OF UNITY TO THAT OF
VARIETY, AND THE SAME FORCE CAN TAKE HIM BACK AGAIN TO
THE WORLD OF UNITY FROM THE WORLD OF VARIETY.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
First came God, and then the object of His Love which is
called Creation. Then God in Love entered into union with
this Creation and all the living forms appeared, the Highest
being man, which is the one resembling the Spiritual Parent
most.
But God, not being man, loves and can enter into union with
all creatures, as soon as that creature -- atom, rock,
earth, stone, plant, vegetable, bird, beast, fish, crawling
creature, human being, djinn, spirit or angel -- turns
toward God. The difference between this second kind of union
and the first is that in the second instance one becomes
entirely united with God, without producing any further
fruits of union necessarily.
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/feb/february9.htm
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