THE FIRST CELL
THE FIRST CELL. ‘It is our first cell!’ The khalifa of the Soul within the body! Whatever we do, it records; it is the page of the Unseen! A constantly vibrating atom! That is, sound — not matter! Bow to the mystery of the ‘POINT’, both first and last!
APOCALYPSE BOOK
THE FIRST CELL
‘It is our first cell!’ The khalifa of the Soul within the body!
Whatever we do, it records; it is the page of the Unseen!
A constantly vibrating atom! That is, sound — not matter!
Bow to the mystery of the ‘POINT’, both first and last!
A trust-cell coming from the body of Adam!
‘A night equal to a thousand years!’ ‘Peace be upon it!’ ‘Like the dawn!’
In every life it is transmitted, from body to body!
‘The oldest of the old!’ ‘The nearest!’ ‘To the One who created!’
‘Never forget the promise you gave me!’ it says,
Its name is ‘Fuad!’ — the Soul speaks to you from within!
The sound belonging to all past sufferings and joys!
The Adam within the ‘jugular vein!’ All must bow!
It is the impartial witness to merit and sin!
It is of the Lord! Keep His word, or you become the accused!
It enters the left ventricle from your father’s sperm!
It binds a cord to the transparent one — this is your birth moment!
In every circulation the blood draws the film of the world,
Gives it to the First Cell — no video is smaller than it!
Whatever you do, think, or say — it records!
The Qur’an calls it the ‘Honored Recording Angel’!
It makes every atom in the body vibrate in its own measure;
It wishes all to take their color from itself!
In every body the First Cell is its seed — why?
Because by vibration it builds your body!
The first atom too is transparent — if the skin is transparent!
‘A pipe that always sounds’, shaping and dissolving!
One single cell never dies, never changes — know this!
When its cord is removed, it tells the heart: ‘Now stop!’
When the heart stops, for three days it transfers the records;
To the transparent body it says: ‘Carry these to the desire-body!’
When the cord divides and the record passes,
At that moment the human truly dies — a subtle secret!
For three days the transparent body is not separate from the corpse;
The one who makes noise does it great harm!
If you cry loudly, the transparent body records nothing;
The soul goes empty to the Hereafter — it cannot remain long!
No record exists to account for the last life!
The sages say: ‘Return the soul quickly to the body!’
A life experience becomes wasted this way —
Is there any loss greater than time?
Allah swears ‘upon Time!’ for this reason!
‘If I judged now,’ He says, ‘everyone would be of the Fire!’
Pray softly and personally for the dead!
Religion says: ‘Nothing is stronger than love!’
Burn the body after three days — otherwise the film burns!
Science says: ‘The storehouse — the transparent body — burns too!’
After three days the transparent body dies and becomes a phantom!
It dissolves with the corpse — no consciousness, full disgrace!
The ‘lower desire body’ lives hell; the upper desire lives paradise!
Thought crosses its limit in the mental body!
Within terrible fire the lower desire body perishes!
When selfish passions end, it dissolves!
Conscience! The name of the First Cell of the desire-body!
The most vivid image of our entire life!
When the lower desire dies, a jinn may enter and become a phantom!
If a medium gives the transparent body, it breathes like a human!
Paradise cannot be described — a realm of beautiful colors!
Every desire is fulfilled; none knows sorrow!
When desires end, the ‘upper desire body’ dies;
Because every desire is only a dream!
Therefore discipline your desires before death!
Let most be with the Soul, and little with the flesh!
Then the ‘mental body’ enters a realm of intellect!
Every thought becomes sound; every word like an oath!
When the mental body dies, if wise, it ascends to the Soul!
It lives its ideal — forbidden to the crude crowd!
There it chooses its own reincarnation,
Shaping a model suited to its evolution!
For the sage, the scholar, the artist — this process is possible!
Guided by the Lord’s Saint — the one who can say ‘Be!’
‘All bodies die, but their first seeds remain!’
Each is the ‘Face of the Lord!’ Bowing is inevitable!
Every atom vibrates, taking its tuning from the first atom;
For this tuning it constantly warns you!
Descending, each first atom draws a body for itself;
Its pen is sound! Rahman is with the Hanif Path!
It wishes every cell to resemble itself!
For it is ‘Allah’s rope in every body!’
As each first cell descends, it renews the body:
‘As they ripen,’ says Allah, ‘the skins are renewed!’
As bodies renew and cells change,
They unite with their essence and shed selfishness!
At the Resurrection everyone’s first cells remain;
The Lord removes them and takes them back within!
‘Hajar al-Aswad!’ Symbol of the first atom of Earth!
EARTH is the body of the Messenger; its Soul is Hazrat Ali!
Master M.H. Ulug Kizilkecili
Türkiye/Ankara - 17 December, 1998
IMPORTANT NOTE :The original text is poetic, and the author cannot be held responsible for any errors in the English translation! To read the original Turkish text, click HERE! The following section is not the author's work, and the author cannot be held responsible for any errors made!
ACADEMIC FOOTNOTES & INTERRELIGIOUS PARALLELS
The concept of the “First Cell” may be interpreted symbolically as a primordial human essence or archetypal seed. Comparable metaphysical structures appear in Sufi teachings on laṭāʾif, the Kabbalistic idea of Adam Kadmon, and the Vedic notion of Purusha as the cosmic prototype of humanity.
The phrase “page of the Unseen” reflects the Abrahamic doctrine of divine record-keeping. Islamic theology speaks of Kirāman Kātibīn (Honored Recording Angels), Christianity describes the Book of Life, and Jewish mysticism contains parallel imagery of celestial remembrance.
References to vibration and sound as creative forces resonate with the Pythagorean “Harmony of the Spheres,” the Hindu doctrine of Nāda Brahma (“the universe as sound”), and Hermetic cosmology in which creation emerges through resonance or divine word.
The symbol of the “Point” (Dot) carries strong metaphysical associations. In Ibn ʿArabī’s writings it represents primordial unity; in Kabbalah it parallels the initial contraction preceding Ein Sof manifestation; in Buddhist and Tantric symbolism it resembles the Bindu, the seed-point of manifestation.
The term “Fuad” (inner heart or conscience) recalls mystical heart symbolism across traditions: the Sacred Heart in Christian contemplative theology, the Tiferet center in Kabbalah, and the Sufi understanding of the heart as a locus of divine awareness.
The poem’s layered human structure — transparent, desire, mental, and soul bodies — parallels Theosophical models of etheric-astral-mental planes, Sufi subtle centers, and the Yogic doctrine of Koshas (sheaths of consciousness).
The motif of a three-day transitional state appears in multiple religious narratives: the Christian resurrection tradition, Tibetan Buddhist descriptions of the Bardo intermediate state, and ancient Egyptian funerary journeys described in mortuary texts.
The idea of a recording principle embedded within the human being echoes Stoic Logos spermatikos, as well as angelic scribes or karmic recording forces present in Abrahamic and Indic cosmologies.
References to reincarnation or evolutionary return align conceptually with Hindu Samsara, Buddhist rebirth doctrine, and certain Hermetic or Neoplatonic interpretations of the soul’s ascent and descent.
The symbolic link to Hajar al-Aswad as a primordial stone reflects a wider archetype of sacred center-stones: the Greek Omphalos, the biblical Bethel stone, and shamanic “axis mundi” symbols marking cosmic centers.
The creative command “Be!” parallels theological concepts of divine speech: the Qur’anic Kun fa-yakūn, the Christian Logos, the Vedic primordial sound Om, and Hermetic word-creation doctrines.
The idea that a “first seed” survives beyond bodily change resembles Sufi metaphysics of ayn al-thābita (immutable archetypes), Vedantic Ātman, and Gnostic teachings concerning the divine spark within humanity.
