Güvercin Kitabı: Kâmillerin Ruhani Huzuru

Into four chapters this book is divided, which is small in extent but great in power. The first contains instruction concerning the bodily labour accomplished in the monastery. The second describes the quality of psychic labour performed in the cell. The third explains the spiritual rest which the consoling Dove imparts to the Perfect, elevating them to royal rank and introducing them into the divine cloud where the Lord is said to abide. The fourth is a tale of the author's gradual progress in teachings and some sentences communicated to him in revelations. This dove is rational and immortal. She even gives reason to the rational and life to the living. She flies without leaving her nest above, the church of the firstborn in heaven. She reaches all quarters without stirring from her place. All images are represented in her without her possessing colour herself. She abides in the East, yet the West is full of her. Her food is fire, and who is crowned by her with wings will breathe forth flames from his mouth. All those who are burning from love and sick from affection reveal their secrets to her and she slakes their thirst. Her speech touches every ear, but few hear her voice. She calls every man by his name, but one of a thousand answers her.