In Section 24 of Jami's Haft Awrang (the Second Discourse), Jami turns from the creation of the cosmos to the creation of Adam. Before Adam, the whole world was already a collection of mirrors and sealed treasuries, each treasure holding the gem of a single Divine Name — yet no single locus reflected the Named (مسمی) Himself, and none gathered the Names together (مظهر جمعیت اسما). The King of Eternity (شاه ازل) therefore chose a gem from the sea of pre-eternity and fashioned Adam: making his heart the treasury of divine secrets and his face the dawning-place of divine lights. Whatever was manifest and whatever was hidden God deposited in him, so that Adam became the meeting-place of the two seas of temporal origination and eternity (مجمع بحرین حدوث و قدم) and was taught the Names (علم الاسماء). Adam is thus the comprehensive mirror in which the totality of the Divine Names and Attributes is integrated — the microcosm and locus of jam'iyyat (integration) that the dispersed mirrors ...