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To: mark silvers who wrote (28170)	11/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 39621

And he said, may God be pleased with him or Whoever finds it astonishing that God should save him from his passion or yank him out of his forgetfulness has deemed the divine power to be weak. "And God has power over everything." Kitab al-Hikam 197 "And God has power over everything." Koran 18:45

To: mark silvers who wrote (28170)	11/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 39621

And he said, may God be pleased with him or It is more dreadful for gnostics to be expanded than contracted for only a few can stay within the limits of proper conduct in expansion. Kitab al-Hikam 81

To: mark silvers who wrote (28170)	11/15/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

And he said, may God be pleased with him or The ray of light of the intellect makes you witness His nearness to you. The eye of the intellect makes you witness your nonbeing as due to His Being The Truth of the intellect makes you witness His Being, not your nonbeing, nor your being. Kitab al-Hikam 36 Ref : A triad of technical terminology is found here: shu'a' al basirah ("ray of light of the intellect"), 'ayn-al basirah ("the eye of the intellect") and Haqq al-basirah ("the Truth of the intellect"). These three correspond to another ternary...'ilm al-yaqin' ("the knowledge of certitude"), which is really theoretical doctrine; 'ayn al-yaqin' ("the eye of certitude"), which has to do with those progressing in the Path and who have more than theoretical insight; and Hagg al-yaqin ("the truth of certitude"), which has to do with those who have reached the end of the Path and possess Truth through contemplation and direct vision... the truth in such phrases as "Truth of the intellect" does not refer to a mental or conceptual image but rather to God as the ultimate Real independent of man and his thinking - the Real (al-Haqq) in Itself.