The Bowl of Saki Commentary

The vision of humankind as humankind is confined to the mind-mesh, but it is also true that God made the human being in God's own Image. By human being is meant what the Hebrews called Aish, the Intellectual Person. But this in turn was an aspect of Adam, the Universal Person, Whose vision extends beyond the mental plane.

The potentiality of humankind is greater than that of any domain in all the aspects of creation or existence. Our physical eye is like that of the animals, limited in scope, better than the eyes of some, not so good as the sight of others. But human eyesight is more closely connected with the human brain and mental life, and our mental eye is not like that of the animals. Some animals may see the sun and moon and be affected by them, but they never think about them, they do not compare their distances or size with the sizes and distances of objects about them. Indeed the mind of animals is totally different from that of the human being in certain aspects, particularly in the higher aspects. Imagination enables us to transcend time while animals are completely subject to time processes.

But the eye of our heart possesses capacity above limitation. This capacity, while it need not be called infinite, still is beyond the scope of mental vision and measurement. In that respect it is neither infinite nor finite nor quantitative nor qualitative; it is not subject to time or space, and is of a very different nature from time and space. So while Heart expands and contracts, opens and closes, it is therefore not of any geometrical or mathematical nature.