Note 3 — PREFACE
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That is to say that a portion of the material world, through the mercy of God, is capable of receiving Very Being, and thus the phenomenon becomes Very Being externalised. But Omnipotence requires the total destruction of all phenomena and all multiplicity of the same substance. The process is repeated ad infinitum.
"The Names" are mentioned in the Masnavi. See also Professor R. A. Nicholson's Divaní Shamsi Tabríz, p. 71.