The real =Taubâh= lies in turning from one's nature. When the disciple turns from his nature he becomes another; _i. e._, he does not become another man, but his qualities change. Then he unfolds true =Îmân=, which sweeps away many-ness and leads to unity. Ere the turning, =Îmân= is but conventional and nominal. "How long will you worship God with your tongue only? This is no better than worshipping desires. So long as thou dost not become a Moslem from _within_, how canst thou be a Moslem merely from _without_?" The lame ass of conventional faith and the lip-behaviour that we have cannot help us to tread the Path. None ought to despair under any circumstance whatsoever. Here work is without a motive, and requires no payment. Many are instantly raised from the level of image-worship to a stage higher than the angels and heaven. The Lord does whatever He wishes. "How" and "why" find no room here. May God make thee a seer of His, and remove thee from thyself! Do thou aspire high, though thou art low at present. O brother, human aspiration should stoop to nothing, either on earth or in heaven! "Such men are so constituted as to care for neither hell nor heaven. They seek God and God only, and spurn what is not He." Theosophy (=Tasavvuf=) is ceaseless motion, since standing water becomes stagnant. A man may corporeally be in his closet, yet his spirit may run to the =Malakût=[4] and the =Jabrût=.[5] Rapid motion, like the morning breeze, can neither be seen nor grasped.--_Letters 2-4._ [4] The astral and lower mental planes. [5] The higher mental plane. ON SEEKING THE TEACHER. The Saints on the Path--blessed be they--unanimously declare that it is incumbent upon a neophyte, after the maturity of his conversion (=Taubâh=), to seek a Teacher, perfect, experienced in the elevations and depressions of the Path, its joys and sorrows, possessed of balance, and versed in the internal ailments of a disciple and their remedies.... Though in the beginning one does not need a Teacher, and the seed can be sown merely with the help of Divine Grace, the seed, when sown in the soil of the heart, does need a Teacher for its further growth, for the following reasons given in the books of the saints: 1. Since one cannot go to the =Kâbâ=[6] without a guide, albeit the way is visible and sensuous, and the pilgrim possesses eyes and feet, it is impossible without a guide to tread the occult Path trodden by 120,000 prophets, which has no visible track and is supersensuous. [6] The Sacred Shrine at =Meccâ=. 2. As there are many thieves and robbers on a sensuous way, and one cannot travel without a guide, so on the occult Path there are many robbers in the guise of the world, the desire-nature and the elementals, and one cannot travel without the guidance of a Master.