#suhrawardi

[porphurios]

Hymn composed by Suhrawardī addressed to the Perfect Nature (al-tiba' al-tamm)

[majestativa]

Today I feel trapped, tightly bound in the cage of existence. I need the scent of nonbeing to set me free.

— SUHRAWARDI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

[wisdom-and-such]

Suhrawardi founder of the Iranian philosophy of illumination

[edwordsmyth]

"Here let us pause, for it seems to us that with the symbol of Ibn ‘Arabi as disciple of Khidr we have reached the center which dominates the co-ordinates of our spiritual topography. Whatever name we may give to the disciple’s relationship with his personal invisible guide, the events it determines do not fall within quantitative physical time; they cannot be measured according to homogeneous, uniform units of time and chronology regulated by the movements of the stars; they find no place in the continuous chain of irreversible events. These events, to be sure, are enacted in time, but in a time that is peculiar to them, a discontinuous, qualitative, pure, psychic time, whose moments can be evaluated only according to their own measure, a measure which in every instance varies with their intensity. And this intensity measures a time in which the past remains present to the future, in which the future is already present to the past, just as the notes of a musical phrase, though played successively, nevertheless persist all together in the present and thus form a phrase. Hence the recurrences, the possible inversions, the synchronisms, incomprehensible in rational terms, beyond the reach of historical realism, but accessible to another “realism,” that of the subtile world, ‘alam al-mithal, which Suhrawardi called the “Middle Orient” of celestial Souls and whose organ is the “theophanic Imagination” that will concern us here." -Henry Corbin

[sensitive-pea]

Sohrawardi, published in Galway Kinnell's Imperfect Thirst

[dreaminterlude]

suhrawardi, the shape of light

[esowteric]

Alchemy and the Hidden Secret

“Alchemy for [Henry] Corbin is essentially the inner, spiritual work of attaining union between the human soul and its heavenly counterpart within the mysterious ground of the ‘hidden secret’ pointed to by the symbolic image. This is the intermediate place between spirit and matter, the mundus imaginalis, where the spiritual world assumes an objective reality, and where the transmutation of the prima materia of the human psyche into the subtle or spiritual body is the work of an alchemical opus that involves encounter with an angelic presence through the faculty of the active imagination.”

~ Angela Voss, “Becoming an Angel: the mundus imaginalis of Henry Corbin and the Platonic path of self knowledge”.

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