11.   Wáhid (one), the Primal Unity (Wáhid-i- Awwal)
Wáhid (one) is contemplated as:

1. One without number (Wáhid be-la Adad), which points to god, denotes the person of His manifestation, the Point (Nuqta), stands by itself with the aid of god, and admits of no multiplication;
2. One with Number (واحد بلا عدد) which points to the One Without Number, and admits no Multiplication.

Wáhid is either one or nineteen. It never becomes two, or twenty. Where one set of nineteen is complete, a new set of nineteen begins.
The Primal Unity (Wáhid-i-Awwal) is contemplated as:

1. the Point (= '.'); and
2. the Point plus the 18 Letters of the Living (=19) as it pervades them.

Normally, the term Primal Unity denotes the 18 letters of the Living. The distinction between the two is clarified from the passage in which this term occurs. For example:
In the name of the Mustaghath is manifest naught else the Primal Unity and in the Primal Unity naught else but the Primal Unity, namely, the Point, the Apostle of god in the Quran, and the essence of the Seven Letters, i.e. the Primal Point in the Bayan.
All existences are in the Bayan, the whole Bayan is in the Primal Unity, and the Primal Unity in the Primal Point (Nuqta-i-Awwal).

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