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               72  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 7 (24): 67-92, Autumn 2020


                  Therefore, the perception of       perception  of  His  detailed
               the  Essence  to  Himself  is         perfection,  monism  appears;
               achieved  by  the  manifestation      But  Eckhart  doesn't  give  this
               of the Essence to him, and this       detail;  But  rather  speaks  in
               perception  has  a Syriac nature      general terms about this topic,
               where it show things, and this        and this thing is not strange to
               is exactly what  Ibn Arabi said       those  who read Eckhart’s  ideas,
               about  the  God’s  Essence            who  tends  to  be  concise  in
               perception,  the  perfection  and     proposing  and  relying  on
               then  the  partial  nouns  to         mentioning the rules of things;
               infinity,   resulting    in   the     But the detail that we notice in
               occurrence  and manifestation         Eckhart  about the manifestation
               of  these  things  set in  their      of  as  a  result  of  perception  is
               worlds,    as    for   Eckhart’s      that  this  manifestation  that
               Essence-perception, he is what        runs  in  things,  is  accepted  by
               constituted  what  Ibn  Arabi         the    realities    of     things
               called  the  loving  movement         according  to  their  nature,
               from  which the  whole was            whereby  this  emanation  does
               born  with  a  different  nature      not  receive  in  a  transcendent
               that reflects the perfection of God.    way  except  for  an  uncreated
                  Also,  this  perception,  if  we   Level,  which  is  the  Son  and
               are in line with Eckhart’s idea       the  Holy  Spirit,  so  that  the
               that  it  is  the  basis  of existing,   Holy  Trinity  is  achieved  in
               then  the  idea  will  not  be        Eckhart’s view, likewise, if we
               definitively  different  from  Ibn    scrutinise  the  words  of  Ibn
               Arabi  in  the  arrangement  of       Arabi, the position of monism
               the worlds, the purpose of the        and monotheism which reflects
               matter is that Ibn Arabi refers       the  Divine  perfection  in  a
               to the manifestation of God in        more honourable and complete
               each perceptual level separately.     manner, are also created.
                  So by His own awareness of            If  one  of  the  studies  could
               monotheism,  and  by  His             compare between Christian and
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