in fixity is a delight for it.
(Witnessing the Entities in Fixity)
This branch is among the greatest secrets of God’s knowledge of things; I witnessed it through divine tasting. For among God’s servants are those whom God acquaints, through unveiling, with the entities in fixity. They see them in the form we have described, neighboring and looking toward one another; they see there neither a state nor a locus:
Rather, each essence stands alone,
Without admixture or union,
Without indwelling or transition,
Without agreement or opposition.
(The Different Effect of the State in Existence and Fixity)
When you understand the difference between existence and fixity, and the rulings belonging to the entities in existence and those belonging to them in fixity, you know that some entities do not want the state’s effect to become manifest within them. They have no tasting of this. Were the taste of pain offered to them in the state of fixity, they would at once cry out.
For in existence, when they carry pain, they may carry patience or may not carry it. We have hypothesized them in the state of fixity as carrying it while lacking patience.
Thus, through the language of their state, they do not have that need to seek existence, even if they ask God for it through speech pertaining to fixity. When they exist, they say—as has been related of some of them—‘Would that I
