joy and delight of those creatures which look to the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, which we are powerless and also not permitted to express, like ‘holy pleasure,’ ‘sacred pride,’ and ‘hallowed delight’ that necessitate this constant activity and ceaseless creativity.

And for example, if a skilful craftsman builds a gramophone which requires no records and it plays just as he wishes, how proud and delighted he will be; he will say to himself: “What wonders God willed!” If an insignificant piece of art in which there is no true creation engenders a feeling of such pride and pleasure in the craftsman’s spirit, then consider the following:

The All-Wise Maker creates the totality of the universe as a Divine orchestra and wondrous workshop which strikes up and gives forth countless sorts of songs and hymns praises and glorification; He displays all the species, all the worlds, in the universe through a different craft and different miracles of art; and not only does He fashion many machines in the heads of animate creatures, each like a gramophone, camera or telegraph, but He also fashions in the heads of all human beings, not only a gramophone without records, a camera without a film, a telegraph without wires, but a machine twenty times more wonderful. It is therefore meanings like ‘sacred pride’ and ‘holy pleasure’ and the exalted qualities of this sort which proceed from dominicality and arise from creating such machines, and their functioning in the required way and producing the desired results that necessitate this unceasing activity.