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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Epistle of Admonition in the Gnosis of Transcendence - Ahmad al-Istibari

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So he said: "Whoever said: indeed the human form is the luminous form in reality and substance, not in attribute and appearance; he has spoken the truth, and whoever said: indeed the human form is other than the luminous in attribute and appearance, not in reality and substance; he has spoken the truth."

Because the human form is from the genus of humans, and it is not from the genus of angels, and the luminous form is from the genus of angels, and it is not from the genus of humans, and indeed the two forms are one form, and there is no difference between them except by the looking upon the eyes of humans.

So glory be to Him who veiled the sights of the servants and manifested as He willed, and indeed the purpose, the ultimate, and the indication in worship [is] toward the reality of the existing form in the earth and the heaven.

And it is permissible to deem Him transcendent above the two witnessed forms: the human and the luminous; because the human form was perceived, witnessed, visible, observed, manifest like humans; and likewise the luminous form is manifest like the angels, perceived, witnessed, observed, visible, so it is obligatory upon every believing Knower to deem Him

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