who continually look toward the Messenger with an eye of truth, while witnessing his humanity and his belonging to the same kind. This kind habitually envies when superiority appears, but that has been lifted from these people. Blessings are opened to them from heaven and earth, just as torment and increase are opened to the wretched, because here they increased the sickness within their hearts when divine signs came to establish revealed laws. Both are people of opening—but opening through what? Know this, for it is subtle within the science of breaths. “God speaks the right and guides the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].
Section Forty-Four: The Subtle in Breath Becoming Dense and Its Cause, and the Dense Becoming Subtle and Its Cause, Like the Melodist Raising and Lowering His Voice
Know that subtleness cannot become density, for realities do not change into their opposites. But the subtle thing becomes dense, just as the hot becomes cold and the cold hot. Know that spirits possess subtleness. When they become embodied and appear in bodily forms, they become dense in the beholder’s eye. Bodies possess density, whether transparent or not. When
