Look at the innumerable and peerless jewels displayed like great dishes at a banquet. The ruler must have an inexhaustible treasury and infinite generosity, both of which deserve and require a bountiful and eternal display of all objects of desire as well as the eternal nature of those enjoying the feast, so that they will not suffer pain due to death or separation until eternity. Just as pain’s end brings pleasure, pleasure’s end brings pain.

Look at these displays and listen to the announcements. Heralds proclaim the miracle-working monarch’s fine and delicate arts. They show his perfections, declare his matchless and invisible beauty, and tell of his hidden beauty’s subtle manifestations. Given this, he must have an amazing beauty and perfection that is not seen here. This hidden perfection requires one who will appreciate and admire it, who will gaze on it and exclaim: “What wonders God has willed!” thus displaying it and making it known.

Concealed and matchless beauty wills to see and be seen, to contemplate itself in many mirrors and via the contemplations of ecstatic spectators and amazed admirers. It wills to see and be seen, to contemplate itself eternally, and to be contemplated without cease. It wills permanent existence for those who gaze upon it in awe and joy, for eternal beauty cannot be content with transient admirers.

Moreover, admirers destined to perish without hope of return will find their love changed into enmity whenever they imagine their death. Such admiration and respect will lean toward contempt, for we are enemies of what we do not know and cannot reach. However, we leave this guest-house quickly and vanish, after having seen, for only a moment, a dim light or shadow of that perfection and beauty. As this sight does not satisfy us, we know that we are moving toward an eternal realm of seeing.

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