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Bowl of Saqi for January 10
AN IDEAL IS BEYOND EXPLANATION.
TO ANALYZE GOD IS TO DETHRONE GOD.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
The realm of Ideals, or what Plato called Ideas, exists
above the mind-mesh. The Divine Light striking the realm of
Ideals is partly refracted, and then reflected above the
mind-mesh. This produces the Ideas in the realm of Pure
Light, so that their Nature is Light; also they are purely
God, taking on what might be called the Intelligent Aspect
of God. As human mind does not and cannot reach this plane,
it is impossible to express the condition there in human
thought and in human words. These arise below the mind-mesh.
Besides, what we call exposition or analysis is of the
nature of distinction; things are known by how and to what
extent they differ. The spiritual Ideas are "not"
differentiated.
In the same way, all that is above the mental Akasha is God,
whether it is explained, or described or referred to in
various manners and by different words. Nevertheless, these
words do not really bring one any knowledge; they are
symbols which indicate there are different conditions, but
as all these conditions are above and beyond the human mind
and larger than the human mind in scope,they are no more
intelligible to it than the ocean would be to a cup.
mind-mesh, Akasha....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january10.htm
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