The Underlying Religion by Martin Lings

Author:Martin Lings
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-933316-43-7
Publisher: World Wisdom

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According to the traditional cosmological scheme of creation, manifestation as such comprises three great Worlds created successively by God (in descending order of ontological reality and “closeness” to God): “the World Spirit,” “the World Soul,” and “the World Body.” Now the World Spirit, or the World of the Spirit, is also called the “World of Ideas” (by Plato); the “World of Archetypes”; the Universal Spirit; the Kingdom of Heaven; the Realm of Supra-formal Manifestation; the World of Essences; the World of the Domination (in Christianity); the ʿAlam al-Jabarut or ʿAlam al-Ruh (in Islam); the Olam Haberiyah (in Judaism);Svar (in Hinduism), and so on. It is said to “contain” the Archangels, the eternal Archetypes of all things in Creation, and the “individual” spirits of men, but strictly speaking it is each spirit, each Archetype, and each Archangel, for in it there is no “separation” or “difference” (although of course there are “distinctions”) between subject, object, and their union; between the knower, the known, and knowledge; between the lover, the beloved, and love, and so on. The World Soul, or the World of Souls, is also called the World of Formation; the Subtle World; the Psychic World; the Grave; the World of the Imagination; the World of Exemplars; the Intermediary World; the Isthmus; the World of the Dominion (in Christianity); the ʿAlam al-Malakut or Barzakh (in Islam); the Olam Hayetsirah (in Judaism); Bhuvas (in Hinduism), and so on. It is ordinarily hidden to (fallen) man, but it contains the individual souls of all men (as well as the genii or jinn, the fairies, and the other “psychic beings”) distinctively in much the same way as individual bodies are contained in that third great World, the World Body or Physical Universe (the Corporeal World; the ʿAlam al-Mulk wal Shahadah in Islam; Olam Ha’asiyah in Judaism; Bhu in Hinduism) which is obviously none other than the world that all men ordinarily know through their physical, bodily senses.

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