/lit/ - Literature

What should I read to understand this concept?

>One God. 99 attributes. Purify the heart so that these attributes may be reflected like a mirror unto God so that He may glorify Himself through you. Where the heart goes the body follows. So purify it so you may return to Him.

Polytheism is a broken mirror never able to reflect the Truth. You're only breaking your own heart by believing in polytheism.

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if people only knew

"Then the matter is as we have confirmed. So know that you are imagination and that which
you perceive and of which you say, "It is not me" is also imagination.
All of existence is imagination within imagination."


I understand that our existence is imaginary (the meaning of imagination being to give form to the formless),
but i don't understand the use of imagination within imagination, could anyone explain?

God is He who Knows as an entailment of being He who is the Self, since the Named is One,
which is to say that it is as a result of the Self being Itself as Knower that the immutable archetypes are.


i don't get it

The theologian defines the attribute of Hearing as God’s knowledge of all things audible,
Vision as God’s knowledge of all things visible and Speech as God’s ability to produce speech,
whereas in the view of the gnostic all the names and attributes are epiphanies of the Essence and are identical with the Essence.
How can the Essence of God be equal with a theophany?

Can someone translate this to english please

Some of the earlier philosophers said, “His knowledge of His Essence is identical with His Essence, and His knowledge of contingent entities consists of the existence of the First Intellect together with forms subsisting within it,” in order to escape certain untenable implications.

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Anyone here familiar the works of the Doctor Maximus Ibn Arabi?