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are obvious and readily understood, while others are hidden
and become evident through self-mortification, discipline, earnest
desire, pure thinking and a heart free from all worldly
activities except those which are required, and conclude
that such discourse is almost contrary to the Religion because
the Religion does not have external and internal meanings,
secret and manifest, but the external and the internal, the
secret and the manifest, are in it all the same. Then you
should know that the division of these sciences into hidden
and obvious is not denied by anyone of any insight but is denied
by the ignorant who, having acquired some knowledge in
their youth, did not advance any further and consequently failed
to gain promotion to the lofty heights where lie the stations
and become evident through self-mortification, discipline, earnest
desire, pure thinking and a heart free from all worldly
activities except those which are required, and conclude
that such discourse is almost contrary to the Religion because
the Religion does not have external and internal meanings,
secret and manifest, but the external and the internal, the
secret and the manifest, are in it all the same. Then you
should know that the division of these sciences into hidden
and obvious is not denied by anyone of any insight but is denied
by the ignorant who, having acquired some knowledge in
their youth, did not advance any further and consequently failed
to gain promotion to the lofty heights where lie the stations