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Manifestation of the Essence of God … M.M. Gorjian et al / 81

               (Al-Mawjudat) is      reasonable      Characteristics of  Manifestations
               and  tangible  due  to  the           of Ibn Arabi and Eckhart
               difference in the rulings of the      Manifestation  worlds  hierarchy
               Entities”.                            and detail:
                  Emphasizing       that     the            Although  the  Meccan
               process  of  manifestation  is               conquests  is  not  a
               nothing  but  a  statement  and              textbook  or  a  series  of
               manifestation of Divine meanings,            lectures,  it  is  rather
               Ibn Arabi says:                              arranged  in  a  way  that
                      “The  manifestation  of               it  can  be  said  that  its
                      Al-Haqq  in  the  Entities            owner  is  the  one  who
                      of     fixed possibilities,           possesses  the  key  to  its
                      and  that  they  did  not             arrangement, and yet he
                      benefit  from  existence              owns  detailed  research
                      (Al-wujud);  Rather  than,            and central point’s much
                      they    benefited    from             more than Meister Eckhart's
                      what appeared from the                sermons for various reasons
                      facts that they are when              we  referred  to  some  of
                      He manifested in them”.               them previously.
                                                            This  is  in  fact,  the first
                  I  think  that  this  factor  is  a       block that plays a fundamental
               contributory  factor,  which  we             role  in  Ibn  Arabi  and
               have  talked  about  previously,             Eckhart's mystical research
               whether  in  the hiddenness  or              specialists,  the  issue
               in  the body of  this  message.              that is no less important
               Therefore,  we  find  that  this             than  the  previous  one;
               reference that we have presented             But  more  important
               is  sufficient  in  this  field,  here       than  it  is  undoubtedly
               we  conclude  the  search  with              the  issue  of  unveiling
               the  points  in  common,  and                (Al-Kashif).
               let’s  start  with  the  points  of
               specialization  for  manifestation
               according to Ibn Arabi and Eckhart.
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