Einstein´s Big Idea

Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction

Big Bang Theory - An Overview

Big Bang Theory
- An Overview

PHYSICS: General Relativity Theory and Quantum Theory

General Relativity Theory: http://www.bartleby.com/173 & Quantum Theory: http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node143.html )

MATHEMATICS: An Introduction to the Works of Euclid

An Introduction to the Works of Euclid

http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/euclid.html

* The Ark arrived in Ethiopia in 470 BC or thereabouts. After leaving Israel, Menelik and his companions settled ing Egypt for hundred of years and built a temple in Elephantine Island (Aswan) to house the Ark. The temple's dimensions were 90 feet long by 30 feet wide. The Bible gives the same measurements of Solomon's temple. When this Jewish temple was destroyed in 5th BC, the Ark was taken to the Island of Tana Tirkos where it was kept inside a tent for 800 years before it was taken to Axum.

Guardian Monk & Saint Mary of Zion Church

* 'After he takes up his post, the monk chosen to guard the Ark of the Covenant has no life outside the Ark. He exists to serve it, to burn incense round about it, to be before it constantly'

CONCLUSION: The Ark was built at the foot of Mount of Sinai, brought victory to the Israelites in the Promised Land, and taken to Jerusalem by King David. Solomon deposited it in the First Temple around 955 BC. Some 300 years later, faithful priests took it away to safety on the Egyptian island of Elephantine where a new temple was built to house it. When this temple was destroyed 200 years later, the Ark was taken to Tana Kirkos where it was installed in a tabernacle and guarded for 800 years by the ancestors of all Ethiopians Jews today. Then the Christians came and took it to AXUM to place it in a church dedicated to the Mother of Christ. The Knights Templar went to Ethiopia searching for it. This fact was expressed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in Parzival where the Holy Grail served as an occult cryptogram for the Holy Ark of the Covenant.

The Ark and The Holy Grail VII

Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter: A few hundred meters to the south of the Dome of the Rock , one can find Al-Aqsa Mosque, which Knights Templar used as their headquarters in XII AD. A few hundred meters from this site, the Dome of the Rock, built on the original site of the Temple of Solomon. Inside there is a great stone, believed by orthodox Jews to be the Shetiyyah, the foundation-stone of the world. And on that stone, in X BC, the Ark of the Covenant was placed by Solomon himself. The Temple was completed destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC, and a second Temple replaced the first half a century later which, in its turn, was razed by the Romans in AD 70. The Dome of the Rock was built by the Muslims in AD 638. Throughout all these changes the Shetiyyah had remained in place. At one side a starway leads down to the 'Well of Souls' were the Templars searched for the Ark before learning of Ethiopia's claim to be the last resting place of the Ark.

The Ark and The Holy Grail VI

In Portugal and Scotland, the Templars appear to have escaped persecution almost completely. King Robert the Bruce (XIV AD) granted safe haven to local and persecuted Templars. The oldest Scottish Masonic Lodge, Kilwinning, was founded by Robert the Bruce after the battle of Bannock burn ‘for the reception of those Knights Templar who had fled from France’. The Masonic system inherited many of the most central traditions of the Order; inheritance passed on in the British Isles in the years 1307-14 by Templars who had survived papal persecution. The Portuguese Order of Christ (1318) and British Freemasonry were the means by which Templar traditions were preserved and carried forward. One of those traditions was the quest for the Ark of the Covenant.

* The Scottish explorer James Bruce visited Axum in 1770 and took back to Europe the Book of Enoch (written long before the birth of Christ, and always of great significance to Freemasons. Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia : ‘Enoch was the inventor of writing, he taught men the art of building, and before the flood he feared that the real secrets would be lost, to prevent which he concealed the Grand Secret...’... The former rulers of Ethiopia made use of the Ark to protect and defend the Orthodox Christian faith. Joshua carried the Ark around the city of Jericho. In 1986, when Menelik II fought victorious against the italian aggressors, the priests carried the Ark of the Covenant... Island of Tana Kirkos: James Bruce was there in the 18th C. The Ark was there at one point. The Ark was taken to Axum in the time of King Ezana and stayed there ever since...

Visit the Lodge Mother Kilwinning No. 0

Visit the Grand Lodge of Scotland

* The ancient Egyptians were convinced that their first rulers were gods. Thoth, the moon-god, was one of these, his reign on earth was said to have lasted 3,226 years. Before him the Egyptians believed that they had been ruled by Osiris, also closed associated with the moon. Thoth was the inventor of writing and of all wisdom. Remains from the pre-dynastic period dated to around 3500 BC, showed no trace of writing. There are no traces of evolution from simple hieroglyphs to more sophisticated styles. The same is true of maths, medicine, astronomy and architecture... Exactly like Thoth, the Sumerian moon-go Sin was charged with measuring the passage of time...

* The wisdom tradition into which the Templars were initiated was the very one to which Moses and Imhotep (the builder of pyramids and obelisks) belonged. The Templars workshipped Baphomet (in Greek 'Sophia' or Wisdom) as the principle of wisdom; exactly what the ancient Egyptians had done when they workshipped Thoth or 'the author of every work work on every branch of knowledge, both human and divine'. Freemasons also held Thoth as having played a major part in preserving knowledge of the mason craft and transmitting it to mankind after the flood.

The Ark and The Holy Grail V

* Did the Templars go to Ethiopia to look for the Ark? Templars went to Lalibela to built eleven rock-hewn churches, at one point the most architecturally advanced buildings in Ethiopia. UNESCO: "They deserve to be ranked amongst the wonders of the world)." In the arch of St Mary's one can see a croix pattee contained within a Star of David, a symbol the Knights Templar were attached to...

* Abu Salih (Armenian geographer, AD XII): 'The Abyssinians have the Ark of the Covenant... The Ark is placed upon the altar... It is as high as the knee of a man and is overlaid with gold'... From the fisrt to the sixth century AD the Ethiopian empire centred on Axum could claim to rank amongst the most powerful. from the seventh to sixteenth centuries Ethiopia all but disappeared from world consciousness. In 1185 King Lalibela, after 25 years in exile in Jerusalem, was accompanied by Templars to win back his Ethiopian throne. However these knights were motivated by a desire to seek out the Ark of the Covenant.

The Ark and The Holy Grail IV

* The Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Salomon: Knights Templar... The Christian Army occupied Jerusalem for 88 years, from AD 1099 until the recapture by Saladin in 1187. Shortly after the fall Wolfram started work on his Parzival, in which he describes the guardians of the Grail as Templars... The Templars were founded by nine French nobleman who had made their way to the Holy Land in AD 1119. Amongst these nine men were Hugh de Payens (first Grand Master of the Order) and Godfrey de St. Omer. As soon as they arrived in the Holy City, King Baldwin I of Jerusalem gave them a large part of the former mosque and its outbuildings immediately adjacent to the ‘Dome of the Rock’ which marked the site where Solomon’s Temple had once stood. They used their occupancy of the Temple Mount to conduct extensive excavations. In recent years, Israeli archaeologists have operated immediately to the south of the Mount, and have found the exit-point of a tunnel which they identified as having being dug by the Templars in the 12th century...

VISIT KNIGHTS TEMPLAR: ANCIENT & MODERN...

The Ark and The Holy Grail III

* Chartres Cathedral (Eure-et-loire, France): The architects and masons made use of gematria (http://www.odeion.org/gematria/, an ancient Hebrew cipher that substitutes numbers for letters) to spell out obscure phrases in many of the key dimensions of the great buildings. The sculptors and glaziers concealed complex messages, in the designs, about human nature, the past and prophetic meaning of the scriptures. In the right bay of the north porch there is a full-size statue of the Queen of Sheba placed next to Solomon, and there’s is an image of the Ark a few feet away from that of the Queen.


* Wolfram von Eschenbach: ‘The Grail is a stone, not a cup’. Wolfram wrote Parzival (http://home.c2i.net/monsalvat/wolfram.htm) at the same time as the north porch of Chartres was built (late 12th or early 13th century. In this north porch there is a full-size statue of the Queen of Sheba placed next to that of Solomon, and beneath her there’s an image of the Ark. On the central porch there‘s a group of Old Testament patriarchs and prophets, including Melchizedek, priest-king of Salem, who holds in his left hand a cup containing a cylindrical object, i.e. ‘the Grail cup out of which comes the Stone‘)... Wolfram constructed his fictional Grail as a code for the Ark. The quest in Parzival is a code that might point to the last resting place of the Ark... Wolfram describes the Grail as a source of blessing and fertility for those who came into contact with it. As numerous biblical passages confirm, the Ark was a source of paranormal lambency.

The Ark and The Holy Grail II

* The Ark is deposited in a chapel near the centre of the city of Axum (Ethiopia). It’s construction was ordered by Haile Selassie in 1965. Before the Ark has rested for many hundreds of years in the near Church of Saint Mary of Zion. Selassie was the 225th direct-line descendant of Prince Menelik... The citizens of Axum protect the Ark and only the monk responsible for guarding the Ark is allowed to enter in the holy ground... When the Portuguese friar Francisco Alvarez visited the original church of Saint Mary of Zion in Axum in the 1520s, the Ark was still in the church. In the early 1530s, the sacred relic was removed to escape the destruction of the armies of Ahmed Gragn. 100 years later, the Ark was brought back and installed in the second Saint Mary’s, built beside the remains of the first church. And there apparently it stayed until 1965, when Selassie had it moved to the new and more secure chapel.

Axum ('Aksum', Ethiopia) & Axum's Chapel

The Ark and The Holy Grail I

God inscribes the Ten Commandments upon two tablets of stones. Moses places them inside the Ark of the Covenant which will accompany the Israelites to the Promised Land. King Solomon places them in his temple in Jerusalem. When the Queen of Sheba visits Jerusalem, she is impregnated by King Solomon and gives birth to Prince Menelik. Menelik goes back to Ethiopia and is accompanied by Azarius, son of Zadok, the High Priest of Israel. Azarius steals the Ark from Solomon’s Temple before the departure and takes it with him to Ethiopia...

* The Ark of the Covenant was a wooden chest measuring 3 feet 9 inches long by 2 feet 3 inches high and wide. It was lined inside and out with pure gold. Solomon built the first temple in Jerusalem as a house for the Ark. The evidence suggests that it was already long gone when the army of Nebuchadnezzar burned Jerusalem in 587 BC... The Old Testament reveals more than 200 references to the Ark up until the time of Solomon (970-931 BC). After his reign, it’s almost never mentioned again...

THE SUFI WORD: Anwar-i-Suhaili

Branches

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

-Anwar-i-Suhaili



Provision and Life

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

-Anwar-i-Suhaili

THE SUFI WORD: The Idiot and the Browing Camel

The Idiot and the Browing Camel

An idiot looked at a browsing camel. He said to it: 'Your appearance is awry. Why is this so?'
...The camel replied: 'In judging the impression made, you are attributing a fault to that which shaped the form. Be aware of this! Do not consider my crooked appearance a fault.
...'Get away from me, by the shortest route. My appearance is thus for function, for a reason. The bow needs the bentness as well as the straightness of the bowstring.
...'Fool, begone! An ass's perception goes with an ass's nature.'

-Hakim Sanai the Illuminated, Sage of Ghazna

THE SUFI WORD: God as an Object of Our Contemplations

We can... take (God) as an object of our contemplations, not only in our innermost hearts but also before our every eyes and in our imagination, as though we saw Him, or better still, so that we really see Him.
-Ibn 'Arabi

THE SUFI WORD: Information and Knowledge

Information and Knowledge

However much you study, you cannot know without action.
A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.
Empty of essence, what learning has he-
Whether upon him is firewood or book?

-Saadi of Shiraz.

THE SUFI WORD: All Knowledge Is Humanity´s Legacy...

Sufism teaches that all knowledge is humanity's legacy, but that one does not receive it until one truly seeks it. And, until it si fully experienced in one's own lifetime, the reality of the message of each Prophet will never be known. My father, Hazrat Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, describes humanity basic conundrum as follows:

Our own internal and spiritual ignorance causes neophytes not to try to know their true essence, which is the most sublime secret of nature. They are not even willing to discover and cognize their own essence. Instead, they always visualize an imaginary, far away goal, a goal which is ambiguous and unreal.

-Molana Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, Sufism: The Reality of Religion

THE SUFI WORD: The Music of the Spheres

The Music of the Spheres

By this title I do not mean to encourage any superstition or any idea that might attract people into fields of curiosity. My aim is to direct the attention of those who search for truth towards the law of music that is working throughout the universe, and that in other words may be called the law of life: the sense of proportion, the law of harmony, the law that brings about balance, the law that is hidden behind all aspects of life, which holds this universe intact and works out the destiny of the whole universe, fulfilling its purpose.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Music of Life.

THE SUFI WORD: Cause and Effect

If you want to know by way of an ocular demonstration how the predication (Hukm) of the Great Manifestation penetrates the universe, then think upon a grain of pulse, every part of which is connected with the other part. When you throw it into water, the water gradually runs through every part of it, so that the form of pulse does not disappear or differ from what it originally was, and there is a natural increase in all directions. The place of its every part in connection and relation to the other part, however, remains the same as it originally was. Similar is the case in the universe where all the heavenly and earthly causes, as well as the causes of will of creatures possessing the power of will, are following their natural cause. Every cause is connected with its effect. Just as the moisture of water has penetrated every part, similarly a fresh light from teh Great Manifestation has permeated every cause and effect, and has removed every cause from its real causality and instead has made its apparent causality remain.

-The lamahat and Sata'at of Shah Waliullah of Delhi, Sufism and the Islamic Tradition.

SUFI SOUL: THE CHISHTI ORDER چشتیہ

THE CHISHTI ORDER چشتیہ

Khawaja Abu-Ishak Chishti was born in the tenth century. He was a descendat of Mohammed. His followers are an off-shoot of the Line of the Masters, which later became known as the People of the Design ('Naqshbandi').

This Chisti community, originated in Khorasan, specialized in the use of music in their exercises. They would enter a town and play a rousing air with flute and drum to gather people round them before reciting a tale or leg-end of initiatory significance. They made their most enduring impact upon India, and for the past nine hundred years their musicians have been esteemed throughout the subcontinent.

On Music

They know that we listen to music, and that we perceive certain secrets therein.

So they play music and cast themselves into 'states'.

Know that every learning must have all its requirements, not just music, thought, concentration.

Remember:

Useless is a wonmderfull milk-yield

From a cow which kicks the pail over.

(Hadrat Muinudin Chishti)

THE SUFI WORD: Inner Senses

Inner Senses

A certain Sufi was asked:
...'Why is it that people have no inner senses?'
...He said:
...' O man of high promise! If they had no inner senses, they would not even appear to be people at all. When people lack inner sense, they behave in a completely destructive or totally passive manner. Being aware of an inner sense is another matter.'

-Idries Shah, The Magic Monastery.

THE SUFI WORD: Worldly Gain

Sufi

A person whose heart is unholy will be deprived of eternal bliss, and he will be incapable of deriving intuitive knowledge. He who has purified his heart through devotional love will earn an edge over others in respect of enjoying spiritual bliss. The more the attraction for worldly gain diminishes, the more the joy of heavinly bliss enhances.

-Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Sufi.

THE SUFI WORD: The Rubaiyyat

The Rubaiyyat

In childhood once we crouched before our teacher,
Growing content, in time, with what he taught;
How does the story end? What happened to us?
We came like water and like wind were gone.

-Oman Khayaam.

THE SUFI WORD: The Philosopher´s Stone

The Philosopher's Stone

It is reported that Rumi, as a demonstration, endowed an ordinary stone with such characteristics that those who saw it thought that it was a ruby. taken to a jeweller, it was sold for over a hundred thousands dirhams.
...But talking of transmutation, Rumi himself said:
...'Using the stone of the philosopher to convert copper into gold is indeed wonderful.
...'More wonderful still is the fact that, moment by moment, the philosopher's stone (man) is converted into copper-by his own heedlessness.'

-Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East.

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters VI

* Jalaludin Rumi, like other Sufi authors, plants his teachimgs within a framework which as effectively screens its inner meaning as displays it. This technique fulfils the functions of preventing those who are incapable of using the material on a higher level from experimenting effectively with it; allowing those who want poetry to select poetry; giving entertainment to people who want stories; stimulating the intellect in those who prize such experiences.
...Rumi had the Sufi habit of excelling in literary and poetic ability beyond all his contemporaries, while constantly affirming that such an attainment was a minor one compared to Sufihood.
...Rumi's major work, generally considered one of the world's greatest books, is his Mathnavi-i-Maanavi (Couplets of Inner Meaning)

The Way

The Way has been marked out.
If you depart from it, you will perish.
If you try to interfere with the signs on the road,
you will be an evil-doer.

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters VI

* Hakim Sanai: The Master Sanai lived during the 11th and 12th centuries, and is reckoned as the earliest Afghan teacher to use the love-motif in Sufism. Rumi acknowledged him as one of his inspirations. The Walled garden of Truth, one of Sanai's most important works, is composed in such a manner as to give several readings for many passages. Sanai is also known for his Parliament of the Birds, which is on the surface an allegory of the human quest for higher enlightenment. His Dervish Songs represents the lyrical presentation of Sufi experience.

How and Why

The essence of truth is superior to the terminology of 'How?' or 'Why?'

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters V

* Hakim Jami (1414-1492): In his Alexandrian Book of Wisdom, Jami shows that the Sufi esoteric transmission link of the Asian Khajagan ('Masters') was the same as that used by Western mysttical writers. He cites as teachers in the Sufi transmission such names as Plato, Hippocrates, Pythagoras and Hermes Trismegistos.
Jami's writing and teachings in the end made him so celebrated that contemporary monarchs, from the Sultan of Turkey downwards, were constantly irritating him with offers of enormous amounts of gold and other presents, and appeals to adorn their courts. His acclaim by the public annoyed him, too, to the mystification of the populace, who could not understand that he wanted them not to adopt him as a hero but to do something about themselves.

The Teacher

The ruler is a shepherd and his flock is the people.
He has to help them and save them, not to exploit and destroy them.
Is the sheperd there for the flock, or the flock for the sheperd?

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters IV

* Saadi of Shiraz: 13th A.D. He wrote The Orchad (Bostan) and The Rose garden (Gulistan), the two great classics. These major works contain a richness of material and beauty of peotry which are almost unparalleled. Saadi was a man of no resources, and spend most of his time as a wanderer on the face of the earth.

The Unfed Dervish

When I see the poor dervish unfed
My own food is pain and poison to me.

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters III

Ibn El-Arabi: El-Arabi is one of the greatest Sufis of the Middle Ages whose life and writings are shown nowadays to have deeply penetrated the thought of East and West alike. He was known to the Arabs as 'the Greatest Sheikh', and to the Christian West as 'Doctor maximus'. He died in the 13th century.

Straying From the Path

Whoever strays from the Sufi Code will in no way attain to anything worthwile; even though he acquires a public reputation which resounds to the heavens.

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters II

* Attar of Nishapur: One of the greatest of Sufi classical literacy masters, and an inspirer of Rumi. Attar wrote about one hundred and fourteen books, among which the most famous are the Sufic Divine Book, the Parliament of the Birds, and the Book of Counsel. The traditions of Sufism assert that Attar's work helps to maintain the social fabric and ethical standards of Islam.

Unaware

You know nothing of yourself here and in this state.
You are like the wax in the honeycomb: what does it know of fire or guttering?
Where it gets to the stage of the waxen candle and when light is emitted, then it knows.
Similarly, you will know that when you were alive you were dead, and only thought yourself alive.

MAIL: A Truth Searcher (Perverted History)

Hello.

Perhaps there is mythology that is actually gross and perverted history and there are angels called grigori and watchers who had children called nephilim and giants and titans with women and there was a pretty technologically advanced preflood earth and a number of things took place and violence spread and a great flood occured for one or more very important reason and we should be careful who we trust and not trust someone just because they have a flying saucer and one or more public arrival of host using demons claiming to be benevolent primate evolving aliens and elohim saviours should not be real surprising to us.
Perhaps reading sections called...

Genesis 6:1-5
andNumbers 13:30-33andDeuteronomy 3:11-13and 2 Samuel 21:18-22and2 Chronicles 33:2-3andJob 1:6-7andIsaiah 14:12-17andIsaiah 24:21
and
Isaiah 26:5andJeremiah 10:10-15andLamentations 4:17-19andEzekiel 28:11-19
andDaniel 2:40-45andDaniel 11:38-39andObadiah 4andHabakkuk 1:8
...can help us learn about various beings and more.

Perhaps history is an interesting word and we are living during an interesting time and it would not be unwise to be on the lookout for major false Messiah deceptions.

Perhaps I should think more about Yahushua (spelling?) and love and repentance and less about grigori and nephilim and flying saucers and freemasonry.

Perhaps people can learn stuff by observing rainbows and waterfalls and fruits and flowers and butterflies and tropical fish and kitties.

Perhaps people should ask themselves if they believe in A Single Creator of heaven and earth and if they believe A Single Creator of heaven and earth was born as Yahushua (spelling?) and if they believe Yahushua (spelling?) died for sins before resurrecting and ascending to heaven.

Perhaps The Son has a Hebrew Name that the name Joshua stems from and that Yahushua is a transliteration of.

Perhaps you will study a section called Zechariah 6:11-13 and ask yourself if you truly believe a section called Matthew 1:21 was originally written in Greek and study a section called Acts 7:45 and then ask yourself if The Son and someone called Joshua the son of Nun have a Name in common.

Perhaps Yah is a transliteration of yod-heh and Yahu is a transliteration of yod-heh-waw and Yahushua is a transliteration of yod-heh-waw-shiyn-ayin.

Perhaps reading sections called...

Genesis 3:15
and
Genesis 22:7-12andGenesis 49:9-12and
Deuteronomy 18:15-19and1 Kings 8:26-27and
1 Kings 9:10-13
and1 Chronicles 17:4-14andPsalm 2andPsalm 16:8-11andPsalm 18:3-7andPsalm 22andPsalm 31:11andPsalm 34:19-20
andPsalm 41:9andPsalm 47:5andPsalm 68:18-20andPsalm 69:16-21andPsalm 118:22-26andPsalm 132:10-18andProverbs 30:4andIsaiah 7:14-16andIsaiah 9:1-7andIsaiah 11-12andIsaiah 25andIsaiah 26:19andIsaiah 28:14-16andIsaiah 42:1-9andIsaiah 49-50and
Isaiah 52:10
andIsaiah 53and

Isaiah 63:5

and
Isaiah 63:8andJeremiah 23:5-8andJeremiah 33:14-26andDaniel 7:13-14andDaniel 9:24-27andHosea 6:1-3andAmos 8:9-10and
Jonah 1:17
andMicah 5:2andZechariah 2:8-13andZechariah 6:11-13andZechariah 9:9andZechariah 11:10-13andZechariah 12:10andZechariah 13:4-9andMalachi 4:2
...can help us learn about Yahushua (spelling?) and more.

Perhaps we are living in a grand story and there is a big picture that is more marvelous and more full of purpose than any created being realizes and a minority of humans have heard of something called the Book of Enoch and the internet is helping to bring stuff to light and we are living during an interesting time when men and women can find translations of ancient texts online and repentance is the most underappreciated word in the English language that is not a transliteration of a Name and nothing is worth living for if Dad is not worth living for.

-Jacob

Tibetan Rituals: Part 6

Tibetan Rituals: Part 5

Tibetan Rituals: Part 4

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Masters I

* Omar Khayyami: Omar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi Khayyámi (غياث الدين ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهيم خيام نيشابوري). Khayyám (خیام) is an Arabic word meaning "tentmaker".

Seeds Like These

In cell and cloister, in monastery and synagogue:
Some fear heall and others dream of Paradise.
But no man who really knows the secrets of his God
has planted seeds like this within his heart.

SUFI SOUL: The Work of the Spiritual Adept...

* The work of the spiritual adept is somewhat of the nature of that quintessential alchemical work at the level of the psyque called Ars Regia, the royal art. The Sufi dervises attune their consciousness to the levels described as typifying the celestial spheres descending in sequence:

1. 1. Alam Al Hahut: Recollecting one's pristine condition, somehow stirring out of deep sleep in the night of time. This si somewhat like the original state of the embryo. All the potentialities of the universe are virtually present, the condition of the divine perfection, our divine inheritance.
   
   
2. Alam al Jabarut: At this stage our essence exists as pure splendor. It can be sensed when contemplation is carried by allowing oneself to be aroused by the emotion that moves the universe. The Sufis refer to a condition where the soul perceives a non physical reality.
   
   
3. Alam al Malakut: The Sufis look upon it as the place where the divine treasures hidden behind their display as the universe are manifested and activated as beings prior to conception and after death. It can only be reached by the break-through of ectasy at the moment of 'aha': discovering the divine intention behind what we interpret as events.
   
   
4. Alam al Mithal: Our imagination projects images that are not a replica of the perceived. This is where we have the full extent of our choice, our FREE WILL. participating in the dive act whereby the physical world is shaped to manifest the sublimity of the emotion driven the universe. Should one maintain onself on the threshold between day consciousness and sleep, image formation will project on the psyche expressing our attunements or moods, premonitions and misgivings in a pictorial form. Hence the meditation techniques fostered by the Sufis gave rise to visionary narratives as those of Shihabuddin Suhra Wardhi, Ibn 'Arabi, elucidated by Prophet Mohhammed's recount of his visit of the heavenly spheres.

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Planes...

* As one rises from one plane to the next ('alam al mithat'---> 'alam al malakut' & 'alam al Jabur'), one encounters counterparts that become less personal and more universal. 'Alam al mithal': One discovers one's dream personality as being very different from one's familiar terrestrial one. 'Al malakut': One's counterpart appears in the form of an angel. 'Aljabarut': Pure splendour beyond form. 'Al lahut lahut': One discovers the sphere, the universal and perfect dimensions of one's being. Hazrat Inayat Khan: This is the level at which our divine inheritance originates.

SUFI SOUL: Stages and the Unconscious

* In the first stages of the retreat process, we use the alchemical model which describe the dissolution (solve) of the dross; the notion of who we are stands in the way of who we might be if we would be what we could be. After the stages of dissolution come the stages of coagulation: Some has to die for the new birth to occur. The materialization of spirit and the spiritualization of matter happens in us. We are the laboratory for this alchemy.

FRACTAL OF THE ALCHEMICAL STAGE OF DISSOLUTION

(c) Dennis William Hauck

* The Sufis explore the areas of the psyche in the art of contemplation. This occurs by keeping oneself suspended at the threshold between sleep and day consciousness, leaving as it were, the door ajar between those two very different perspectives... The Sufis foster creativity by cultivating that 'organ' of creativity which they call 'creative imagination'... Instead of the unconscious communicating to the conscious clues to its message by dint of symbols, the consciousness of the Sufi wanders in the areas of the unconscious which he/she envisions as being the celestial, sometimes super-celestial spheres.

SUFI SOUL: Sufi Learning and Levels of Development

* In former times there were Dervish orders and Sufi tariquats. They have become the modern Sufi groups. The Sufi community is a place to offer mutual help and assitance and growth, a spiritual brotherhood and sisterhood. Sufi groups are determined by the commitment to the same goal and meditation practice. They are essentially open and welcoming communities. The group cares for the problems of members, newcomers or guests. There are no ritual conditions for membership, inclusion is based on the attraction to the Sufi path... Study work in a Sufi group is unpredictable: there is group meditation, working with dreams, discussing problems, Sufi jokes, laughing, tea, telling stories, lectures, empathy, communion in silence... Sufi learning is learning how to learn, being in contact with others, becoming more and more silent and open in meditation. Sufi groups are laboratories for human transformation. Sufism is the path of the loving heart.

(c) Ameen Azzawi

There are numerous descriptions of the levels and phases of development in Sufi literature: Orientation and attraction by Sufism; Learning how to learn; Intuition, inner experiences though meditation, expanding consciousness; individuation or becoming who you are; the power of love or being a lover; mystical experience of Oneness and Nothingness. Sufis are experts of the human psyche, but above all they are mystics. Their goal is not individuation but the realization of God... All mystics describe their experience in God in the language and with images of intimate embrace, as a union in love. Rumi: "Wherever you are and however you feel, always tend to be a lover." Love is the universal power of transformation. On the Sufi path, love is generated from heart to heart by the spiritual leader. It is the opening of the heart chakra that is given highest attention. Preparing yourself and emptying yourself is done in meditation. The Sufi student learns to perceive the different forms of love, to make more and more empty space for love. Genuine understanding on the Sufi path is gained only through love.

(c) Baker Abd Alraheem