As was explained in Lesson Sixty-Six...

As was explained in Lesson Sixty-Six, expressions such as: “ His command when He wills a thing is only to say to it, Be, so it is ” (36:82), bear the same sort of meaning as was given for knowledge of created things.

It is to be concluded that divine generative will can be taken in two senses: one in the sense of love directed toward His own voluntary actions, which is a single pre-eternal essential attribute identical to the essence, whose relation to actions and objective entities is like essential knowledge, which basically is of the sacred divine essence, and subordinately of His effects and manifestations. Likewise, divine…