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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Honey in the Gnosis of the Eternal - Salman Tahir Abd al-Rahman

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And if the Throne, which encompasses the universes, has folded within his world, then how can his manifestation be sustained without overflowing secrets upon him—He who established Himself over His Throne and created him in His image, majestic is His power and exalted is His status.

We have previously stated that the spirit is fluid, capable of ebbing and flowing, and a pure clarity by virtue of primordial nature. Thus, it is a mirror in which everything that faces it of other mirrors is reflected. Nevertheless, it is susceptible to reflection and to being conditioned by many of the qualities; it takes shape according to the forms that the imagination (al-wahm) conceptualizes and reflection renews. So if we accept this, we may say: Since the spirits recognized each other from their first world and were paired—and this pairing is the very essence of reflection—and their clarity is a guarantee for the imprinting of what faces them of counterparts, we may conceptualize that every spirit has all other spirits imprinted within its mirror.

And know, O you, that the cosmic impressions that occur to the spirits prepared for the breaking of habits are not obstructed by righteousness nor corruption; rather,

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