Unveiling

Whenever a person of unveiling sees a form which communicates to him 
gnosis which he did not have and which he had not been able to grasp before, that form is
from his own source, no other. From the tree of himself he gathers the fruits of his 
cultivation, as his outer form opposite the reflected body is nothing other than himself, even though the place of the presence in which he sees the form of himself presents him with an 
aspect of the reality of that presence through transformation. The large appears small in the
small mirror and tall in the tall, and the moving as movement. It can reverse its form from a 
special presence, and it can reflect things exactly as they appear, so the right side of the 
viewer is his right side, while the right side can be on the left. This is generally the normal
state in mirrors, and it is a break in the norm when the right side is seen as the right and 
inversion occurs. All this is from the gifts of the reality of the Presence in which it is 
manifested and which we have compared to the mirror.

Ibn Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom