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Soli Deo Gloria

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@psycheandpneuma Whose climax would be the Enantiodromia: the Technological Singularity and the Parousia. Many prominent prophets, saints, and transhumanists also believe this would coincide with the 3rd quarter of this century.

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

The Balance of the Letters

“In Jābir’s historical context – an Islamic environment between the seventh and the ninth century – any mention of the mīzān would have evoked an immediate association with Sura al-Raḥmān (Qur’ān 55:7–9),

‘He has set the balance (mīzān) so that you may not exceed in the balance: And establish weight (wazn) in justice and do not fall short in the balance.’

Jābir’s balance, just as in this Qur’ānic context, was meant to measure all of creation; the entire universe could be deciphered through its laws.

In keeping with the customary ‘scattering’, the ideas on the Balance are scattered throughout the treatises of the Kutub al-mawāzīn, but the practical gist is that it is a method of letter manipulation, called the ‘balance of the letters’ (mīzān alḥurūf), and based completely on the numerical values of the letters.

These values allowed the alchemist to calculate or decipher the intrinsic properties of animals, plants, minerals and all creatures, thus acquiring knowledge with a view to the obtention of the alchemical elixir.

The relation to the transformative power of alchemy is established on several levels: this manifestation of the operative science of letters and words (sīmiyā) is a science of the transmutation of language just as al-kīmiyā deals with the transmutation of matter.

If we recall the patronage of Hermes, god of alchemy, upon language, it is easy to see the shared characteristics between the two realms: the mobility, the ever shifting bearings, the uninterrupted flow of movement, either as a phonetic stream of sounds or a graphical sequence of characters which metamorphose into each other incessantly, like snakes.

The principle underlying Jābir’s Balance is ‘the coordination between the letters forming the words and the Natures or elements constituting the things named.’

It is not only a manifestation of the seminal idea explored in the Cratylus, of language as a direct prolongation of reality and a doorway to reality, but it is also the clearest manifestation we have found so far of the total identification between letter, number and concept; it is the science of names as alphanumeric realities.

It can naturally be viewed as a kind of particle physics, and this is why it has often been compared to the atomism of Democritus and to that of the Timaeus. In fact, the lineage proposed for the precedents of Jābir’s Balance retraces closely some stages of the previous pages of this work: the association with the Pythagorean tradition is there, as is the affinity with Philo’s cosmology.”

— Juan Acevedo, Alphanumeric Cosmology from Greek into Arabic, p. 195 - 196

[روائع القصيد @raway_alqasid]

"ليس لدي جناحان ولست بطائرٍ
ولكن قلبي بالسماء مُتعلّق"

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@harrishanafite https://t.co/NXUwIiXLoU

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Indeed. An angel is, of course, not the humanlike creature with wings and a white gown that one sees in children's prayer books, but rather a pure intellect, a mind without matter. And the intelligibility of such a thing becomes clear when one understands the arguments for the immateriality of the human intellect, versions of which are as old as Plato and Aristotle. In fact, rightly understood, the idea is far more sensible than that of so-called "artificial intelligence." Ignorance of all this is a main reason why so many are wrongly embarrassed by the idea. Example 1,234 of why it was a catastrophic mistake to stop teaching priests Scholastic philosophy and theology. (See my book Immortal Souls for the main arguments for the immateriality of the intellect.)

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@VisStephen @guilherme94jose https://t.co/y7JeHl93I7

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@guilherme94jose https://t.co/8VZzc8HsQu

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@guilherme94jose https://t.co/8VZzc8HsQu

[Fons Vitae Books @FonsVitae]

This extraordinary book contains a full translation of the Tao Te Ching from Chinese, along with an extensive Sufi mystical commentary on each verse by the renowned scholar, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr...

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[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@thestillpoint_ دَواؤُكَ فيكَ وَما تُبصِرُ
وَدَاؤُكَ مِنكَ وَما تَشعُ��ُ
أَتَزعُمُ أَنَّكَ جُرمٌ صَغير
وَفيكَ اِنطَوى العالَمُ الأَكبَرُ
فَ��َنتَ الكِتابُ المُبينُ الَّذي
بِأَحرُفِهِ يَظهَرُ المُضَمَرُ
وَما حاجَةٌ لَكَ مِن خارِجٍ
وَفِكرُكَ فيكَ وَما تُصدِرُ

— علي (ع)

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@ZiadElLabban @harrishanafite

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@UnmodernmanBot “…every man [must] combine within himself judicial and executive powers.”

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@harrishanafite The creatures are a veil,
And you are a veil,
But The Real is not veiled.
It is only veiled from you by you.
And you are veiled from yourself by them.
Sever the veils and you will bear witness.

— Arsalān Al-Dīmashqī

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@harrishanafite الخلق حجاب
وأنت حجاب
والحق ليس بمحجوب
لكنه محتجب عنك بك
وأنت محجوب عنك بهم
فانفصل عنك تشهده

— أرسلان الدمشقي

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

@_primamateria The Psychopathology of AI

[Muʿāḍ مُعَاذْ @muadlamen]

“There are four primary narrative movements in literature.

There are, first, the descent from a higher world; second, the descent to a lower world; third, the ascent from a lower world; and, fourth, the ascent to a higher world.

All stories in literature are complications of, or metaphorical derivations from, these four narrative radicals.”

— Northrop Frye

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#Articles
#OpenAccess
#NewPublication
Philosophical Studies Journal
Volume 3 : Issue 1 (Sep 2026)
https://t.co/wOonjvMmn7

[Marsilio Ficino @Ficino1433]

"Know that the lower nature cannot hold all the forces of the higher nature in one subject; and, therefore, that these forces are dispersed in our world through many natures."

[waiting @_primamateria]

“Indifference to the cosmic, however, fosters intense concentration on minute segments and specialist tasks, which is the unique strength of Western man. For the specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.” -Marshall McLuhan