All citations in bold from Ibn Arabi’s al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah Book 1,2,3,4 translated by Shuayb Eric Winkle; Pir Press 2020.
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There is no door to the Sacrosanct House
“There is a door that has been bolted shut by Messenger of God”
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You have to approach from below,
inside a low and buried stream of water
Rolling in as the source of the Muhammadi Oasis
That quietly erupts inside
and roles towards a sealed Presence.
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“….she had withdrawn from her people to a chamber looking East.”
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Corbin says we begin
in the Crypt of the Temple
When we join the friends
When we take our place in the line.
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“The site of the Qutb (Pivot) who resides there is not perceived except by the one who inherits from him.”
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From our bones the temple rises
From the crypt where we begin
Each floor emerges,
each planet,
each metal,
each world,
each angelic hand.
It grows like a vine,
like a pillar,
like a throne
From the leveled Earth,
folded around you.
Like the red flag of Hassan i Sabbah,
Unrolling and flying in a place away
Announcing the time of rising, raising
Looking East,
mouth open,
Nourishment roaring in
As the voice of a room
In a sacrosanct house
Rising up between four mountains
And four rivers.
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Each chapter of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah
Is an interior room with a Presence,
A nourishing voice.
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“This friend receives them just as the Muhammad-based site received them, because of the Presence which came to him in this Presence-site (hadrat). She is told by the Presence of this Muhammad-based site what messages he should propagate for the sake of this community.”
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As you enter a room, there is a flash
A sulfurous person is there
And a message for you that persists.
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Does this message sink into the waters
That led you to the House,
does it become quiet, interior
Wrapped and obscured by Earth?
This is the phase of the Egg, and the Seed.
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Does it rise and build a new level
A new floor in the House
Announce a new voice?
This is the phase of the Flying Bird and the Rising Shoot
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Or does it dwell with the spirits
Of this place,
join a persisting community
Holding space for manifestation sites
For orbiting letters to land
And convey the path through the spheres,
Through the rooms of this house.
This is the phase of the Perched Eagle or the Fruiting Tree
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“However, this friend (wali) has heard it from the same spirit who cast it Ito the Muhammad-based truth, just as the Companions heard it………If one hears it from the casting spirit, then one is like the Companions who heard it from the mouth of Messenger of God.”
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Every wall of each interior room of this sealed House
Touches another room.
The interior walls have openings
That appear,
eventually,
or you become distracted
create distraction.
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Sometimes the opening is a wound
And when this is the case
we turn away from the voice, the letters, the law, the community
We stop and sit with the Presence,
We face her,
the interior sulphur of this room.
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“The world of breaths from my breath:
They are the annunciators of the wholly apart.”
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Like the Throne’s Bearers on the day of arising
The Sacrosanct House has eight floors.
In Chapter 15 Book 2 The Breaths or The Room of The Breaths
We find a list of the Seven Floors
And in Chapter 14 Prophet-Friends or The Room of The Prophet-Friends
reveals the Eighth
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The first and lowest floor,
Has sealed exterior walls
That have no door
But there is an opening
in the center of the floor
for the soul to arrive as a pool, a water, a mercury
A mirror to reflect the seven skies.
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As a dweller in the sacrosanct house,
The Mercury of my soul
Receives the Sulphur flash in each room
of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah
And the Salt is the Body of the Anthropos
The walls and container
Of this miraculous place.
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Muhyiddin ibn al-Arabi
traversed the ladder
Through the eight floors of
this House
And he leaves us these instructions to follow him.
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Part Two: The Ladder of the Hidden Ziggurat
Spheres, Rooms, Organs
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You begin at the Oasis of Muhammad
Chapter Fourteen Book Two Prophet-Friends
Your soul sinks into a low and secret stream of water
It delivers you to the manifestation site
Of a once buried Reality
Here pooling in Presence, arriving, nourishing, showing its face.
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The Eastern wall of this room
Connects to Chapter Twenty Nine Book Three Ahl al-bayt
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“This is the one who returns, among the ones cut off to be alone, to God. They are cut off from the creation, and their attachment is to journeys, the open spaces, and the shorelines, and fleeing from the people, and departing the kingdom of the living – because they want freedom from all beings.”
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You start in the Crypt of this World
You begin below, underneath the House
Rolling quickly, with purpose to find
The feet and legs of The Complete Person
Mercy and Justice rising up,
soaring in beautiful
Sensuous form.
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“Indeed over my creatures you have no dominion” al-hijr 15:42
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The wall of this room connects to Chapter 13 Book 2
The Bearers of The Thorne
Malik and Ridwan hold one support of The Throne
Openings to fire and paradise
A seed of Gold longs for
the mercy of water and justice of fire
To be healed by Imam Mudawi al-Kulum
To become clear and bright.
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You proceed as an Egg, a soaring Hawk, a perched Eagle
To The Moon, To Adam,
The Tailbone of The Complete Human
The second floor of the House.
You ascend on secret airs,
On subtle gales of Israfil,
Blow us home, with truest aim.
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“Knowledge of happiness and wretchedness; and knowledge of the names”
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You proceed with the roaring gales
To Mercury, To Jesus
The Sacrum
The third floor of the House
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“Jesus is the seal of the Friends. It is an honor given by Muhammad. That God sealed the authority conveyed by friendship with Him (wilayah)….”
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You proceed from pulsing spirals
To an underground sun
The fourth floor is the solar plexus
To Joseph and To Venus
Bright binding and loosing
Becoming lost in deep wells
and obscured by deeper folds of Beauty
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Your first pass through Venus
Is sublimating desire
But as Imam Mudawi al-Kulum heals you
And makes you Beautiful
Then She (Beauty) becomes your driving force
Your swiftest arrow
To arrive at the love of the
Word,
the breath,
the lips,
the bright body and face.
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“But there may occur in the mineral some deficiency or ‘sickness’ from excess dryness or excess wetness, or heat or cold, displacing it from just balance. This sickness has an influence on a particular form, now called iron, brass or lead – or some other mineral.
“The wise man (hakim) provides knowledge of remedies and medicines to remove this illness that occurred, depending on the personality of this seeker of a degree of perfection (kamal, completion) with regard to minerals – and that is gold – so he removes it. He rectifies and adjusts it until it reaches the degree of perfection.”
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The fifth floor
Is the strong chest and breasts
atomic brilliance
The Sun and Enoch:
“…..knowledge of flashes and rays; knowledge of every luminescent body, and why it glows…”
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The sixth floor is the throat
Of Mars and of Aaron:
“..knowledge of managing the kingdom…..knowledge of guiding and misguiding…”
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The seventh floor is the face
Of Moses and of Jupiter
The fire of perception,
the fire of the mind.
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The eighth floor is
Saturn and Abraham
The crown of the Anthropos.
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“Each swims in an orbit” al-anbiya 21:33
“And by the stars they are guided” al-nahl 16:16
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Circulate the consciousness, soul, and body
Through the openings of Fire and Water
Through the rooms of the eight floors
Through the Presences.
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The walls witness, the walls open
The Tannur of Noah
erupts and pools
becomes a living stream,
a mirror of seven skies.
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“……the friend shares equally with the prophet in perceiving what the general population sees while sleeping, but in the awake state. This place (of the waking dream) belongs to the friends among the family of our path. And an accomplishment of another place is the act of spiritual energy (himmah), and knowledge acquired….”
Sources:
All citations in bold from Ibn Arabi’s al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah Book 1,2,3,4 translated by Shuayb Eric Winkle; Pir Press 2020.
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