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               82  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 7 (24): 67-92, Autumn 2020
                  The conquests as their name        dismissed because the purpose
               is  what  God  conferred  upon        of the sermons is to provide a
               Ibn  Arabi,  for  he  is  the  one    mystical  view  of  Christian
               who witnessed, he who travelled,      thought  and  not  to  present
               he  who  saw  and  he  who            Eckhart's own experiences and
               connected, in addition to other       what  we  find  the  greatest
               matters that exposed us in the        present  in  his  most  complete
               context  of  our  talk  about  the    works  is  the  quotations  from
               conquests  at  the  beginning  of     the  Saints  and  the  Greatest  of
               the  message,  such  as  the          Christian  mystical  thought,  in
               transmission  of  the  sayings        addition  to  the  Sacred  texts,
               of mystics,  their  experiences       and his own analyses.
               and  their mystical life,  and           As  for  the  worlds  of
               from  the  evidence  of  this         manifestation,  we  mean  the
               speech in the conquests:              situations in which the Divine
                      “I     say    what     the     Essence  manifested,  such  as
                      picket unveiling (Al-Kashif    the monotheistic presence (Al-
                      al-Itisami)  has  given        Hadra  Alwahydiah),  the  fixed
                      him”. (Ibn Arabi, 2002,        Entities,  the  world  of  angels,
                      Vol. 1: 41)                    the ideal and    the    absolute
                                                     visible world (Alam Al-Shahada),
                  As for Eckhart, if we do not       as  Ibn  Arabi  referred  to  it  in
               want  to  deny  the  issue  from      several places in the course of
               the  beginning;  But  it  is  really   his speech about the manifestation
               difficult to find evidence of his     of Al-Haqq the     Almighty, he
               personal  mystical  experience,       referred  to  it  in  an  orderly
               yes,  as  a  matter  of  not          manner  that  should  be  so
               cheapening people their things,       according  to  his  witness
               it  is  possible  by  comparing       vision, and Here I review some
               Eckhart's  sermons  to  each          of the texts related to it, which
               other, we can conclude such a         are in order:
               personal experience of him. In
               any way, the matter cannot be
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