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the degrees of existence are imagination) and the
realized by the human existential (discontiguous world

worlds. That is, the means of imagination) ones.
of connection between The mystics, including
these two types of worlds Ibn Arabi, believe that the

are the human senses. imaginative faculty is one of
Human has both external and the inner faculties of soul
internal senses, which the and the storehouse of forms

traveler always use. captured by the senses.
In Mysticism, vision is In other words, the
considered a kind of imaginative faculty needs

imaginalization that has the senses and without
two aspects: Ontological and them it would not be able
epistemological. Imaginalization to imagine sounds and

ontologically is connected colors and the likes of that.
with the world of imagination Ibn Arabi believes that
and epistemologically is the imaginative faculty
related to the outer and does not only need the

inner senses of man, senses; but also needs the
especially the imaginative retention and remembering
and imaginal faculties, faculties; because the

namely, in order for the retention faculty preserves
Imaginalization to be the imaginal forms in the
achieve, the relationship imagination, and without it

between the two worlds must the forms in the
be exist: The human imagination would go and
(contiguous world of