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>>21807293
the star of david is just sacred geometry you idiot

>>20364378
Another relevant Sufi saying to this is, “Pears do not grow only in Samarkand.” When the same “pear” or fruit of higher development of the soul develops in people of different cultural conditionings and languages, it is indeed the same fruit, even if the revealed teachings about it have these trappings of the “time, place, and people” (a common Sufic phrase) they grew in, and a person in whom this same fruit is developing or has developed will instantly recognize this.

>He who knows himself knows his Lord.
Ibn Arabi

Historically, as Shah and scholars like Ernest Scott in his “The People of the Secret,” have noted, Sufism has had connections with movements like Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Similarities between and geographical/historical pathways for the influence from certain orders of Sufism, to the creation of these secret societies in the West, can indeed be found. The mythical founder of Rosicrucianism, Christian Rosenkreutz, is reputed to have studied and gained wisdom from Turkish, Arab, and Persian masters (all hubs of Sufism). Linguistic and symbolic ties between the symbols of the rose, the cross, and of dervish exercises can be found as if transplanted from a historical dervish order of Abdul-Qadir el-Jilani, into the mythos of Rosicrucianism. See this upcoming passage from the appendix of Shah’s “The Sufis.” A similar interconnection can be made between symbolism, language, and ideas of the Bektashi dervish order and Freemasonry, as well as transplanting of Sufi alchemical literature and ideas into the phenomenon of alchemy in the Renaissance (which, as Jung astutely noted, appeared to be referring to psychological/spiritual processes — also an insight the Sufis have made, in that the “gold” transmuted from “lead”, is the lower human regenerated into the perfected human, Insan-i-Kamil).