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[Anonymous No.11863212]

>In declaring, "The Intelligence is one with eternal Time," Nasir Khosrow is also slating the secret of the speculative Ismaili cosmology: the eternal birth of the pleroma from the Ibda (eternal Existentiation), formed of archangelical hypostases originating in the first among them. This world is not of an immutability and immobility presenting a simple contrast to the perishability of sensuous things; there are Events in Heaven, archetypal Events preceding the Creation of things, and these Events are the very genesis of being. This ontological mystery is circumscribed by Nasir in three words (azal ازل, azaliyat ازلیت, azali ازلی) the nuances of which we should have some difficulty in translating if the author, even though writing in Persian, did not relate them to Arabic paradigms. Thus we have an eternally-being (azal) as nomen agentis (present participle fa'il فاعل); an eternal actuation of being (azaliyat) as nomen verbi (noun of action, fi'l فعل); an eternally being made-to-be (azali) as nomen patientis (past participle, maf'ul مفعول). The text is marvelously abstruse, but it discloses the following: by being eternally, the eternally-being (azal) actuates precisely its own being-that-has-become —its being which has eternally been— that is to say, which is eternally made-to-be by its own act of being. We must bear in mind that in terms of Ismaili philosophy the eternally-being constitutes the supreme godhead, absolutely unknowable and unpredicable. But what this godhead is eternally in actuating its being, in revealing it, is the first archangelical hypostasis (al-mobda 'al-awwal المبدع الاول), its eternal Personification, its very Ipseity, the Only One forever being revealed. This Archangel is the Deus Determinatus (al-Lah الله) to such a point that all the predicates which the exoteric religions would focus on the supreme godhead should actually be applied to this divine Epiphany within the First Intelligence ('Aql awwal عقل اول).

just in awe of this gnosis lads

[Anonymous No.11863290]

>In the Acts of Peter, a book belonging to those so-called "apocryphal" collections which were particularly esteemed and meditated upon in Gnostic and Manichaean circles, we read a narrative that provides an exemplary illustration of theophanic vision. Before a gathering of people the apostle Peter refers to the scene of the Transfiguration that he had witnessed on Mount Tabor. And essentially all he can say is this: Talem eum vidi qualem capere potui ("I saw him in such a form as I was able to take in"). Now in this gathering there are, several widows, afflicted at once with physical blindness and incredulity of heart. The apostle speaks to them in a tone of urgency: "Perceive in your mind that which ye see not with your eyes." The assemblage begins to pray, and thereupon the hall is filled with a resplendent light; it does not resemble the light of day, but is an ineffable, invisible light such as no man can describe. And this radiant "invisible light" shines into the eyes of these women, who alone are standing in the midst of the prostrate assemblage. Afterward, when they are asked what they have seen, some have seen an old man, others a youth, still others a little child who lightly touched their eyes and made them open. Each one has seen in a different form, appropriate to the capacity of her being; each one may say: Talem eum vidi qualem capere potui.

[Anonymous No.11863342]

absolutemente basado

[Anonymous No.11863520]

cogito, ergo sum