Hidden In Plain Sight

Hidden In Plain Sight

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi


"Although the Real is One, beliefs present Him in various guises. They take Him apart and put Him together, they give Him form and they fabricate Him. But in Himself, He does not change, and in Himself, He does not undergo transmutation. However, the organ of sight sees Him so. Hence location constricts Him, and fluctuation from entity to entity limits Him. Hence, none becomes bewildered by Him except the discerning, and no one understands this admonition except him who combines the assertion of similarity with the declaration of incomparability." 

~Tr. William C. Chittick, Imaginal Worlds, 163

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