He who would know the Secret of both Worlds will find that the Secret of them both is love – Attar.

Before all things, before the creation, before his knowledge of the creation, God in his unity was holding an ineffable discourse with himself and contemplating the splendour of His essence in itself. That pure simplicity of his self admiration is Love, which in his essence is the essence of the essence, beyond all limitations of attributes. In his perfect isolation God loves Himself, praises Himself, and manifests Himself by Love. And it was this first manifestation of Love in the Divine Absolute that determined the multiplicity of His attributes, and His names. Then God by His essence in His essence desired to project out of Himself His supreme joy, that Love in aloneness, that he might behold it and speak to it. He looked in eternity and brought forth from non-existence an image, an image of Himself, endowed with all the attributes and all His names: Adam. He created Adam in His own image, thus the human became the place of His manifestation.