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Reason, A Barrier or A Bridge… M. Dehghani Firouzabadi and M. Islami / (127
and desires of ego (Nafs), you in every direction
universal reason will be under its bitter control.
strengthened. He contends that (Ibid, I: 2497-2497)
universal reason is like a
camel driver and man is like a Thus, this is the universal
camel under his control. He reason that unites man with
also goes on to say that partial God. Universal reason is a
reason is a vulture. Thereupon, conceptual faculty which can
he states: enter the entities. To do so,
O changer, make its (carnal) universal reason frees itself
lust, which is the tail, to be from the world of senses and
entirely lust for the world hereafter. tries to understand the entities.
By the same token, Blake’s
When you bind its lust (and familiar concepts of worldly
debar it) from the loaf, that problems by weak, fragile
lust puts forth its head from (is intellects are contradicted by
transformed into) noble reason. the incorporating perception of
(Rumi, 1990, VI: 1122-1123) this dominion both as a
provisional stay against non-
The vulture is the particular entity, and as an essential step
(discursive) reason, O poor in the direction of ultimate
(spirited) one: its wings are redemption. Therefore, what
connected with the eating of was just the limiting reason in
carrion. (Ibid, VI: 4138) “The Book of Urizen” adopts
Your intellect (universal the characteristics of a
reason) is like the magnificent creation, accomplished
camel-driver, and you by human forms. Thus, regarding
are the camel: it drives this limiting reason Blake states:
