Kernel of the kernel : concerning the wayfaring and spiritual journey of the people of intellect : Risāla-yi Lubb al-lubāb dar sayr wa sulūk-i ulu'l-albāb [sic] /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Persian |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2003.
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Colección: | SUNY series in Islam.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Sayyed Hossein Nasr
- Ch. 1 Editor's Introduction
- 1. Attraction to the invisible world is in man's primordial nature
- 2. Straight Path means a combination of exoterism and esoterism
- 3. Holy Qur'an calls for purification along with intellection
- 4. Mulla Sadra's recommendation for humility of the heart and acquiring intellectual sciences
- 5. chain of gnostics during the last hundred years
- 6. Reasons and motivations for compilation of this treatise
- Ch. 2 Kernel of the Kernel
- 7. human being in the darkness of materialism
- 8. Wayfaring and spiritual journey according to the gnostics
- 9. Difficulties in passing through the intermediate world and the realm of multiplicity of the souls
- 10. spiritual traveler entering the realm of spirit
- 11. goal of the traveler is companionship with God and His Image
- 12. Muraqabah, its stages, and effects
- 13. meaning of wine (mey) according to gnostics
- 14. traveler observes his own soul
- 15. traveler observes Divine Names and Attributes
- 16. Immersion in the Divine Essence of the Lord and subsistence in the Worshiped
- 17. station of being present in the world of multiplicity while simultaneously witnessing and experiencing the realms of Divine Lordship
- 18. Reasons why not everyone can reach the station of human perfection
- 19. inability of words to describe the realities of the lights of catharsis and the Realms of Divine Lordship
- 20. world of sincerity (khulus) and its hierarchy
- 21. Peculiarities and manifestations of sincerity of essence (khulus-i dhati)
- 22. Freedom from the world of multiplicity is one of the first and most essential necessities of spiritual journey
- 23. One's detachment from one's essence
- 24. need for Divine Grace for total victory in the struggle against the carnal soul.