The Seven Valleys teaches that the way to attain the Presence of God is to hearken to the message of the Manifestation of God for today. An ordinary or even an extraordinary human being cannot expect to become a Christ. No man can by taking thought add an inch to his physical height nor can a thistle bear figs. No one can claim to be identical with the Essence of God because no one possesses infinite power, knowledge, ands goodness. But every man, no matter how lowly his origin, can aquire the attributes of God through submission to the divine laws and reflection on the Word of God as revealed by the High Prophets. The individual who arrives at the objective of the mystic quest, the Presence of God, is he who has recognised the Manifestation of God for his day and who by following His instruction has clothed himself with those heavenly qualities that enable him to draw near the Beloved. Such a person will never proclaim himself to be God-like but his actions will speak for him. One recalls the story of the Persian who took his son to a lovely garden where many people had gathered to pray. After an hour of chanting prayers, the boy looked around