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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Ibn Arabi - The world is illusory

 



The world is illusory: it has no real existence.

This is what is meant by "imagination"

(Khayal). You have been made to

imagine that the world is something separate

and independently real, outside of the

Absolute. But in reality it is not so. Do you

not see that in the world of sensory things

a shadow is attached to the person from

whom it originates and that it is impossible

to separate a thing from its essence'?

Therefore know thy own essence and who

thou art, what thy inmost nature is and

what thy relation is to the Absolute. Know

in what respect thou art the Absolute, in

what respect the world, and in what respect

"other" (than God), "different," etc. And

here it is that "knowers" become ranked according

to degrees. 





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