Realms Imaginal
On Spirit and the Imagination II
“The wisdom of Khālid b. Sinān,” wrote Muḥammad ibn ʿAlî ibn Al-ʿArabī (henceforth Ibn Arabi when I write his name) in his masterpiece The Bezels of Wisdom (Ar: Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam) “resides in the fact that, in his mission, he manifested the Prophethood of the Isthmus.”1 He goes on:
He claimed that he would reveal what was there [at the Isthmus] only after hi…
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