As the Ideal World is the perfect reflection in all its particular aspects of the One Idea, the Three Perfections are the immanent essences of that emanating Idea; and in their unity of expression constitute the beauty of the Integral Order.The Three Perfections being the reproduction or reflection of the One Substance, they correspond, in their triune interactive relationships, to the four-fold, the seven-fold, and nine-fold orders, or the respective Moments of Illumination in the Celestial Realms.
The beautiful presentation of the higher form of the Sufi philosophy given by Mohammed Barakatullah in recent numbers of Mind, with which the writer finds himself remarkably in accord, has moved him to submit to its readers a rough summary of his own as yet unpublished philosophical system (the manuscript of which passed through the hands of a well-known scholar on the Atlantic slope several weeks before the first of the Sufi articles appeared), by way of a document illustrative of the measure of agreement which may often be found among thinkers representing the very religions and philosophies which, in their superficial aspects, are most diverse and contradictory.
AN OLD-ROSICRUCIAN SUMMULA
CommentaryAs the Ideal World is the perfect reflection in all its particular aspects of the One Idea, the Three Perfections are the immanent essences of that emanating Idea; and in their unity of expression constitute the beauty of the Integral Order.The Three Perfections being the reproduction or reflection of the One Substance, they correspond, in their triune interactive relationships, to the four-fold, the seven-fold, and nine-fold orders, or the respective Moments of Illumination in the Celestial Realms.
TRANSCENDENTAL MONISM
CommentaryThe beautiful presentation of the higher form of the Sufi philosophy given by Mohammed Barakatullah in recent numbers of Mind, with which the writer finds himself remarkably in accord, has moved him to submit to its readers a rough summary of his own as yet unpublished philosophical system (the manuscript of which passed through the hands of a well-known scholar on the Atlantic slope several weeks before the first of the Sufi articles appeared), by way of a document illustrative of the measure of agreement which may often be found among thinkers representing the very religions and philosophies which, in their superficial aspects, are most diverse and contradictory.