Arif-Sources

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Arif 37

OF THE FOUR UNIVERSAL SOURCES 

THE Sufis and Unitarians divide the Universe into four Sources—1.the Nature of God 2.the Constructive Spirit 3.the Invisible 4.Sensible Worlds.

The First Source, that is, God, created the other three out of nothing, and will, when it pleases Him, reduce them to nothing again.

The First Source, which is God, is a hidden treasure, and He desired to be known . He therefore appeared, coming from internal to external being; this was the beginning of the Second Source or Constructive Spirit. This again appeared, and the third and fourth Sources were in like manner made manifest; they are the Invisible and Sensible Worlds.

Everything therefore proceeds from the First Source. The Source then which was a hidden treasure was the internal Nature of God, and every existent being a manifestation of His nature; consequently everything which exists is the nature of God, and there neither is nor can be any other existence save His.

These four Sources were always exactly as they are now, and have no precedence whatever, the one over the other.

but any notion of deterioration is incompatible with existence, since that must be the existence of God.

The initiated amongst them, however, allow that the First Source has precedence over the Second, and the Second over the third and fourth; but they state that it is a precedence of order and mind, not of place or time; the precedence of the Sun’s Orb over its rays, or of cause over effect, each having been manifested by the preceding.

God is the First Source, He is the hidden treasure who desires to make Himself known; the others are manifestations of the First, and the more manifestations take place, the more the First becomes known.

The Sufis maintain that these four Sources have a precedence the one over the other, both of time and place; such precedence as Adam has over Mohammed. The origin of the Universe is placed by them in Eternity; that of the Constructive Spirit, the Second Source from which it sprung, in Eternity of Eternities, whilst the Nature of God, the First Source, is Sempiternal .

There are other Unitarians, who explain the Four Sources as follows.

The First Source, the Nature of God ( an Infinite and Illimitable Light, a boundless and fathomless sea).

The Second Source, the Constructive Spirit( proceeding from Him, is likewise an Infinite and Illimitable Light and a boundless and fathomless sea; it comprises and comprehends every existent atom, and governs and administers the entire Universe)

The remaining two sources are manifestations of this Infinite Light, and the recurring phenomena of nature are but continued manifestations of the same.

The sole object of such manifestation was that God, the hidden treasure, might make Himself known. It is as it were the mirror of God; the mirror in which His majesty and perfection is reflected, the mirror in which He sees Himself.

The Universe is the mirror of God, and the heart of man is the mirror of the Universe; if the Traveller then would know God, he must look into his own heart; if he would know the light, he must look into his own heart.

Avoid sin and ignorance you will attain to holiness and wisdom.

The Traveller then must overcome the restraints of time and place, before his footsteps can border on the threshold of Eternity.

When I want to talk to Allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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