Universal Man by ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili

 “Universal Man is not really distinct from God; he is like the face of God in his creatures. By union with him, the spirit unites with God. Now, God is all and at the same time above all. He is at once immanent and transcendent; equally the spirit, in this state of Union, is united to creatures in their essences, by a direct intuition; at the same time it is like a diamond that mixes with nothing and is penetrated by nothing, because it participates in the Divine Reality which is sufficient unto Itself.”