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Manifestation of the Essence of God … M.M. Gorjian et al / 83

                   -  The Highest Divine essence            from the loving affection
                      has manifestation:                    (Mahabba)  of  God”.
                      “Know that this presence              (Ibn     Arabi,    2002,
                      or Al-Haqq the Almighty,              Vol. 2: 402)
                      whose release and primitiveness    -  These  worlds  include
                      is  proven,  its  necessity           the isthmus of the ideal
                      and  its  unity,  through             world, including the perfect
                      transmission, reason and              human being:
                      unveiling, has manifestation”.        As we note that matters
                   -  The  manifestation  of                are completely arranged
                      the Divine Essence was                according  to  Ibn  Arabi
                      accomplished through what             and whenever he enters
                      is known in the mystical              into a new research that
                      custom by the Breath of               uses  the  same  criteria,
                      the All-merciful:                     for  example  the  perfect
                      “His  saying  I  liked  to            human  being,  whether
                      know,  so  He  showed  it             Ibn Arabi used it in the
                      in the Breath of the All-             section of the worlds of
                      merciful,  and  that  divine          manifestations  or  the
                      breathing was the Entity              worlds  of vision or  in
                      (Ayn) of the existence of             researching  the soles of
                      the  world”.  (Ibn  Arabi,            the Islamic law or anywhere
                      2002, Vol. 2: 437)                    else, he uses it in a one way.
                   -  Loving  affection  (al-
                      Mahabba) is  the  cause           If  we  come  to  Eckhart,  we
                      of  the  manifestation  of     do not find such a division and
                      the Soul or the departure      hierarchy  in  the proposition,
                      of  the  merciful  Breath      yes,  there  are subscribers on
                      from God Almighty:             which  both mystics agree;  But
                      “The  formation  of  the       in  the  details  we  do  not  find
                      world from the merciful        for them this participation,  for
                      Breath which is manifest       example  Eckhart  does  not
                                                     explain to us when the Divine
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