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Iblis as God of Imagination
Monday, March 21st, 2016
““What is that “essence of Satan” mentioned by those Kurdish devil-worshippers encountered by my friend?”
The answer is suggested by certain texts of the school of “the greatest shaykh”, Ibn ‘Arabi, especially Aziz ad-Din Nasafi’s treatise on The Perfect Man:
‘God delegated his vicegerent to represent him in this microcosm, this divine vicegerent being the “intellect”. When the “intellect” had taken up the vicegerency in this microcosm, all the angels of the microcosm prostrated before it, except “imagination”, which did not, refusing to bow, just as when Adam assumed the vicegerency in the macrocosm, all the angels prostrated to him, except Eblis, who did not.
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Six persons emerged from the third heaven: Adam, Eve, Satan, Eblis, the Peacock, and the Snake. (more…)
Tags: Iblis, Ibn ‘Arabi, Peter Lamborn Wilson, The Black Light: Satanism in Islam, The Misery of Islam
Posted in Cognitive Liberty