 The decisive difference between animals and humans lies not in speech or rationality, but rather in the fact that man was created in the form of God per se, that is, God as designated by the all-comprehensive name. Everything else was created under the care of less comprehensive names. Adam’s divine form is God’s all-inclusive face, the Reality of Realities that embraces the full range of possible entifications of Nondelimited Being. The human microcosm has the potential to realize—that is, to actualize the reality of—everything present in the Book of the Cosmos and the Book of Scripture. Just as the visible, corporeal world came into manifestation by way of several stages of entification, beginning with the Reality of Realities and descending by way of the invisible worlds until it reached the minerals, so also the “levels, stations, and stages” come into existence through the on-going self-disclosure of Real Being in the invisible realms of the ascending arc and reach their fruition when they return to the Origin. It is at that point that the circle of existence is completed, the dividing line disappears, and the imaginal distinction between Real and creation is effaced. As Ibn ‘Arabî writes: