O thou who hast drawn nigh unto the spirit of Christ in the Kingdom of
God! Verily the body is composed of physical elements, and every composite
must needs be decomposed. The spirit, however, is a single essence, fine
and delicate, incorporeal, everlasting, and of God. For this reason whoso
looketh for Christ in His physical body hath looked in vain, and will be
shut away from Him as by a veil. But whoso yearneth to find Him in the
spirit will grow from day to day in joy and desire and burning love, in
closeness to Him, and in beholding Him clear and plain. In this new and
wondrous day, it behoveth thee to seek after the spirit of Christ.
Verily the heaven into which the Messiah rose up was not this unending
sky, rather was His heaven the Kingdom of His beneficent Lord. Even as He
Himself hath said, 'I came down from heaven,'(47) and again, 'The Son of
Man is in heaven.'(48) Hence it is clear that His heaven is beyond all
directional points; it encircleth all existence, and is raised up for
those who worship God. Beg and implore thy Lord to lift thee up into that
heaven, and give thee to eat of its food, in this age of majesty and
might.
Know thou that the people, even unto this day, have failed to unravel the
hidden secrets of the Book. They imagine that Christ was excluded from His
heaven in the days when He walked the earth, that He fell from the heights
of His sublimity, and afterwards mounted to those upper reaches of the
sky, to the heaven which doth not exist at all, for it is but space. And
they are waiting for Him to come down from there again, riding upon a
cloud, and they imagine that there are clouds in that infinite space and
that He will ride thereon and by that means He will descend. Whereas the
truth is that a cloud is but vapour that riseth out of the earth, and it
doth not come down from heaven. Rather, the cloud referred to in the
Gospel is the human body, so called because the body is as a veil to man,
which, even as a cloud, preventeth him from beholding the Sun of Truth
that shineth from the horizon of Christ.
I beg of God to open before thine eyes the gates of discoveries and
perceptions, that thou mayest become informed of His mysteries in this
most manifest of days.
I am most eager to meet thee, but the times are not propitious. God
willing, we shall let thee know of a better time, when thou canst come
rejoicing.