Know that intimacy with God is not valid among the realized ones. Rather, intimacy is with a particular, determined divine name, not the name God.
(The Comprehensive Name and Particular Names)
Likewise, whatever comes from God to His servants cannot belong to the name God’s ruling, for it comprehends the divine names’ realities. Nothing occurs to a particular person within created existence except through a particular name. Indeed, nothing universal appears throughout created existence, all that is other than God, except through a particular, determined name, which cannot be the name God.
Among its rulings is independence of the worlds, just as among them are the world’s appearance and His love for that appearance. One independent of the world does not rejoice in it, yet God rejoices in His servant’s repentance. The rank of the name God is known, but its ruling cannot appear within the world because of the opposition within it.
This is a great matter, majestic in measure and difficult to conceive in divine matters. If something intrinsically requires an affair, its essence cannot be described as independent of that affair, just as it cannot be described as needing it. Independence of the worlds has been reported. If we take this as independence of indication, it is as though He says, “I did not bring the world into existence to indicate Me, nor manifest it as a sign of My existence. I manifested it only so that the ruling of My names’ realities might appear,
