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Below is the our work in the Messenger Series from 2023
with Ibn’Arabi and Mansur al-Hallaj ~ Blessings be their name.
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Mansur al-Hallaj 1 : The journey begins again ~ Going Beyond Dualism
Mansur al-Hallaj 2: Crucification on the Cross: The horizontal representing earth, life in the World and the vertical is the upliftment, the remembrance of the Infinite.
Mansur al-Hallaj 3: lt is not that we become a new person, we become a true person.
Mansur al-Hallaj 4/5: Annihilated the ‘I’ disappears and what is left is the shell, the mold, through which the infinite appears. Thou art Stillness.
Mansur al-Hallaj 6/7: Pre-Eternity we can know of it but not know it.
7:Practice: Oh Sun ~ Thy Light found in the soul of all souls.
Mansur al-Hallaj 8/9: Creation as a means of god discovering itself hence the dawning of duality. 9:One step beyond what we can imagine, one step beyond our ideal of God.
Mansur al-Hallaj 10/11: “Each soul made a promise to proclaim God as a reality.” 11:“I thought i was the seeker and found I was the sought.”
Mansur al-Hallaj 12: What is the message for us today? What is our responsibility?
Sufis use of the essence explained from Pir’s 2003 book..
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Ibn’Arabi 1 : The journey begins. Comments can help us see ourselves.
Ibn’Arabi 2: The hope is to identify with a new perspective that bridges the gap between the manifested and unmanifested, between that which appears and that which transpires behind that which appears.
Ibn’Arabi 3: Explanding the our understanding of the HIK quote, “Make God a reality and God will make you the Truth.”
Ibn’Arabi 3.5: Shahabuddin holds our hand and give comfort to us as we struggle with Ibn’Arabi.
Ibn’Arabi Extra: Understanding the nature of pure meditation and motivating us towards practice.
Ibn-Arabi 4/5: “The more I give expression to the qualities of the Diving essence which seeks existence and manefestation in and through me, the greater my feeling of fulfillment and purposefullness.” and then Shahabuddin shares with us the practice of “Hu”.
Ibn’Arabi 6: With the help of ‘the archetypes‘ we realize our Divine Inheritance as an actuality. The Lover – The Beloved – Love Itself.
Ibn’Arabi 7: “The Lover, the one seeking the Beloved, is actually the Beloved itself.”
Ibn’Arbi 8: That You. Thank You. Ibn’Arabi – Pir - Shahabuddin.
QUOTES submitted during Ibn’Arabi focus series.
— “The Lover, the one seeking the Beloved, is actually the Beloved itself.” ~ Ibn’Arabi 7
— “He knows Him/Herself through the knowledge I have of of him/Her,
because it is the knowlege He/She has of me.” ~ Ibn’Arabi 3 *
— Should a human being appear, God is hidden and should it be God who appears the human being now fails to appear” ~ Ibn’Arabi 2
The underlined words were added for gender equality.
— “He/God knows Him/Herself through the knowlege I have of of him/Her,
because it is the knowlege He/She has of me.” ~ Ibn’Arabi 3 *
— Last night I begged the wise one to tell me the secret of the world. gently, gently she whispered. “Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoke, it is wrapped in silence.” Rumi
We Are One 