The Bowl of Saki Commentary

First came God, and then the object of God's Love, which is called Creation. Then God in Love entered into union with this Creation and all the living forms appeared, the highest being humankind, which is the one resembling the Spiritual Parent most. But God, not being human, loves and can enter into union with all creatures as soon as that creature—atom, rock, earth, stone, plant, vegetable, bird, beast, fish, crawling creature, human being, jinn, spirit, or angel—turns toward God. The difference between this second kind of union—where love takes us back again to unity from variety—and the firs—where we are brought by love from unity to variety-is that in the second instance one becomes entirely united with God, without necessarily producing any further fruits of union.