“The lover is God, since, in this abode of love, no atom moves without God’s permission”
“How pleasant life they have made and how durable are the benefits you are looking for! You will have opened the gates of heaven, you did go in procession to their hearts in the Celestial Kingdom!”
“Only the servants (of God) no longer enter a discontinuity in the universe, God’s Way, would disappear only benefit from the demons that are introduced instantaneously through breaches in the ranks …”
“Destroy the Universe, there will be real, true to himself”
All the mystics of all ages have taught that there are as many ways as walkers. But as in the legend of the Grail, only a few it is given to live this spiritual adventure that binds the experiences of a mysterious way, “electric” and final.
In Tibetan texts, the books of Dzyan-speaking of these paths as the paths of Happiness, seven in number. For every soul, the star or inner God builds a light beam is projected onto the land on which that soul is standing: This is the path. But just as the moon draws endless silver ripples on the sea, as many eyes looking for each search path is: down like a ray of light is projected into the karma of each, giving a sense, teleology , structured as a staircase, then “ONE LOVE CAN NOT BE MORE THAN ONE AND ONLY THE BEGINNING.”
Captains Courageous find this inner path through the Will, the self-control, external and internal conquest. Philosophers and ideologues through what inspires, gives birth and consistency to its mental creations. Devotional soul, that which gives purity to their feelings and temper of their loyalty. The philosopher who is of our brief study, found and walked the path to the God of Love, Soul of religions. Like a sea of wisdom and love has this inexhaustible reservoir that feeds the souls of all lovers. For as Ibn Arabi explains very well, it is Love that loves and is loved. The mystical path, walk by the “few scholars in the world have been” not easy, but it’s the sink that allows the Abode of Love, the heart renews hope in the souls of believers.
Who, without walking down this road so narrow as the edge of a knife could be said to Ibn Arabi:
“My heart has become capable of taking all forms.
Is pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks:
Temple idols of Kaaba pilgrims
Tables of Jewish law and the Koran
I live in the religion of love,
wherever they turn their horses,
there is my religion and my faith “
The written work of this learned Murcia is colossal. Only Futuhat his latest masterpiece, filled with more than four thousand pages. Hundreds of books preceding it. Almost all his works are written, says Ibn Arabi, by divine and are not approximations, but definitive treatise on the subject they address. Futuhat The full title is “Book of the spiritual conquest of Mecca on the knowledge of the King and the kingdom.”
It is in this work appears his Treatise of Love, a conquest of the secrets of love and the paths that lead to God, the Lover and Beloved verdaderos.Toda life seems like a game of illusions which are engraved the names of God trace the path toward him. Life is an illusion more or less reflect light as much the glory of God. This is the ancient Oriental concept of the Divine Unknown, and Nature, Maya, a veil that surrounds it.
“The thirst has the impression that the mirage is water, due to the need that has to quench their thirst without which not worry about the water that becomes the object of its necessity and its preservation. Because water is Search mobile and love because of the secret of life is contained therein. But when you get there where I thought the water taste, finds nothing except God himself instead of water. The design was the thirsty water sensitive, while the object of God was to lead to Him by this means illusory without noticing. “
It’s for love loving souls who trace the path. Beings exist because they are loved, otherwise sumergeríanse into nothingness. Love is the light that comes to life. That is why the Greeks chose in the first triad of gods: In the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos breast, like an arrow of fire comes Eros, the drive first. What moves the lover, not the desire, which is true love-brake is an image of the first movement, the first activity.
When Ibn Arabi lists the names or statements by recognizing the Lover, come back on the same image. If in the Orphic hymns wandering Eros is a torch, also Ibn Arabi “state of the lover is to be mobile as the bird.” As a lighted torch lights and creates, and lit the flame still ahead. “No day in which the lover does not raise his flight itself from one site to another with alacrity.” At first the lover believes the names, “says Ibn Arabi, read him as an archetype-like creatures are the nests where they live, but then realizes that no, actually the names are names of God. That is, what one loves are faceted and shine in the Grand Diamond is God.and the lover becomes a fast flying bird that departs from the nest, after circling around it considered as its own name.
Ibn Arabi describes the state of the lover as that is always up to God through His Names. God will manifest the lover both in the names of creatures like the perfect Divine Names.
The fire that shines in the eyes of the lover is God. And the serene depth as calm sea that calls and appeals, in the eyes of love is also God. And love the row of this fire.
In the Middle Ages that was mystical tone of the divine disposition is in Christianity or Islam, “The Lover’s State is to disappear under the effect of a statement of the Beloved: (…) it is God himself THAT SAYS. ” In ancient Greek and Roman classical prima friendship of souls and the rapture is the eyes that look in his eyes, soul to soul, light to light. Mani, the founder of the religion of art, not speculate on “That of which nothing can talk,” Unknown. Love, pure mystical guide the path and appears-well-as he calls it Twin Luminoso. But it is in the rapture that disposes of Ibn Arabi, in love kind of pagan or medieval courtly love statements are always the same. Studying any of them can understand the other “are not the same as the Laws of Love?
Perhaps more manly ride the endless plains of the stain with Dulcinea as a bright image, perpetual, side, and fight on his behalf against jinn and endragos; to cross the desert by saying the name of God, and give wisdom and light to all who come, obedient, submissive, the order of heaven. But beyond appearances, Love’s banner waves with strength in both.
Let’s look in Don Quixote, in his divine madness, and appear before our eyes all the attributes or names of the Lover who is already close to God, just as described by Ibn Arabi. And although our Spanish hero say that his complexion was that of Mars, where it is claimed that classic Mars is Venus and nimbus of light, and where on Mars and Venus is love. Presupposes Mars Venus. Presupposes Venus to Mars. Don Quixote is the red eye of Mars, sworn to the destruction of evil and the evil ways that poison the air, and dew Dulcinea beauty and goodness that descends upon him.
Where Ibn Arabi says that “The spirit is light and dark matter” and that the state of the lover is to be dead. Cervantes says his hero: “I am walking through a world of iron to make a world of gold.” Is, in philosophical language or martial language.
Ibn Arabi speaks of the divine madness of the lover, who can not judge and just measure of things in this underworld. You can not find their true value and is beyond the scope of legal obligation. And Cervantes speaks of the hero who defies the Holy Brotherhood, to free a chained Sierra Morena, because under the law of heaven was not so much the error penalty.
As already noted, Ibn Arabi, the state of the lover is to be always up to God through their names. And in Don Quixote, is heroic push back horizons, battle to battle, a feat feat. Maybe even in the setting of the sun-bloodied certainly in La Mancha, in Spain with his lights Vesper sweet and tender touch: smile Venus.
Where Ibn Arabi says that the lover must remain in continuous vigil, how to rest if it is far from what we love: “The dream away from you I is denied, how can you sleep separated from loved?”. Don Quixote says that it is not lawful to sleep, and when it sleeps, the candle lovers do not sleep, dream with open eyes. It is the sadness of the lover in Ibn Arabi, sadness and calm continued, the one whose motto is, as Ibn Arabi: “God does not have appreciated at its true value!”. And this sadness also named our Knight: Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance. “
And Don Quixote is the state of Ibn Arabi lover described as “far exceed any behavior” for it is not concerned about the love to meditate on the management of the world and because it has the overflowing imagination. Don Quixote are also sighs of love and approve only what pleases the beloved. Because according to Ibn Arabi taught between Lover and Beloved is only the veil of that which is born and dies and it is love that must tear.
And the awareness that the reality of the beloved is of an importance which vastly exceeds that of its own: How to dive if not in the distant beloved. Also obedience, for, as Ibn Arabi says, “If you really love, obey, because the lover that fits you love.” A total obedience, but alive, not like a stone, because the stones do not walk, and what you want is to join the beloved. What is more, getting bigger and bigger, gaining glory and winning a world renowned and offer it to the Beloved, this is the mystique of Don Quixote. Or getting smaller, until either an atom, not more, happy dance within Love This is the key to true humility. Humble is one that is small to accommodate the other in the stream of life, which saves nothing but gives everything. And it is this that chooses Ibn Arabi when he explains that “one of the most extraordinary possibilities manifest in the universal existence of content is the ability of the heart” and when he mentions the “deterioration” as one of the states of lovers. It is the image that is deteriorating in health and vitality, and as it relates to the divine beings and their light, who lives in Love “as the imaginary point that exists only in the illusory” Ibn Arabi it relates to a prophetic vision that he saw the Angel of Death became smaller and smaller in his heart until they disappear into the mainstream of life, such as bubble dies.
Of course, the problem is the Man. Understanding what is man, we would understand also what is its path, the path of love. For Ibn Arabi, Man is the world’s axis, its synthesis, and the world is the beauty of God. “The World Created by God is perfect economy and the principles of perfection” the way of man is the Form of God, what distinguishes Angeles and men is that men can create, calling activity to humans through the name and number.
“God favored the perfect man with the science of names. By virtue of this dignity and this degree is more excellent than the angels. This is the choice that God has entrusted to man (…) God gave these names to Adam Treasure deposited under the throne, and the angels did not know it (…) God gave to Adam all the names without exception, so that it glorified him with every divine name rightful. “
Crucial are the ways of Love to Ibn Arabi: those that pass through the names of Nature to get the names of God. Every element of nature is a symbol of God’s Name. The lover sees his beloved in the mystery of the sea, or the psychic and dense glow of the moon in its beauty the star. His gestures are seen as the breeze moves the leaves of the tree, and his smile is the dawn. And sings her laugh like a harp that move the fingers of the wind. It resembles the sound of his voice stream in the Monan. What the Lover love here? Loves nature whose images he may name, and looks lighter and pure even in his beloved. And she loves being a soul sister!, Another mystery, and bigger!. And soon learn that these natural symbols invoke the names of God, and learn to love, in his beloved, his brothers, or the Mirror of Nature, Peace, Goodness, Measure, Power, Serenity. .. all God’s names that are names of Being Beloved.
And as a single being can not truly love more than one single principle, all these paths leading to the God of Love, they become a single path. The wake the lover leaves behind. As grounds for his hope with the light that casts its star, the name of God. You can call all the Names of God, all living in it and yet only one can get into your breast. Such is the fate of Man, the trails await.
