Piercing the Veils and Synchronising with the Source

The path of release takes exceptional courage to practise Ascensional Evolution, which is a kind of surgery on the Self, by which it recovers its penetrating sight and frees itself from the fetters of density. When the illusion that objective reality is the final truth falls away, the doors of true vision open. We can then discern the self-disclosures of the Source at every point in the fabric of existence, and hear the call of divine peace, in its own rhythm, behind the static of matter. This path helped me to understand more deeply the noble verse “There is nothing like Him” (Q 42:11). It is not merely a denial of bodily likeness. It is a radical denial that God can be concretised or confined in any image at all. The Real, glory be to Him, is an abstract truth that transcends “thinghood” in His absoluteness and eternal self-sufficiency, and He cannot fall into the trap of limited human conception. In this context the mechanism of witnessing emerges as a necessity of knowledge. The greatest error, I found, lies in trying to perceive the Absolute with the tools of the bounded. The sensory tools — sight, hearing and touch — are in reality frequency receivers, designed to deal with the world of slowed light at its lowest levels and to manage the density of earthly clay. They are not tools for witnessing the Highest Source. Any attempt to grasp the essence of the Qurʾānic codes through the biological eye is therefore doomed by a technical limitation, like trying to observe a component of infinite dimensions with a material instrument of limited resolution. This is what makes it necessary to activate the mechanism of witnessing grounded in the calibration of the heart, where witnessing turns from a visual process into a state of synchronisation between the Fuʾād of the Vicegerent and the pure light of the Source. Witnessing, in the school of Concretion and Abstraction, lies beyond the zone of material Concretion. It needs a processor of a special kind, a heart: the Heart of the Higher Self, the Self that is bound to the in-breathing of the Spirit. This heart is able to see what lies behind the veils and to perceive the law hidden behind the image. By siding with the physics of insight, and by stripping the instrument of perception itself of the dust of materialism, consciousness begins to see the One behind the many, and to draw certainty directly from the Source without material intermediaries. This fine balance allows us to manage earthly density effectively and skilfully while remaining in constant connection with the world of absolute meaning, and so raises the human being along the stairways of perfection and fulfils the highest purpose of vicegerency. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved