The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King
The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King

Author: Fairfax Leighton Cartwright

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781297018671

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The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King; a Fragment of the Vision of Sheikh Haji Ibrahim of Kerbela
The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King; a Fragment of the Vision of Sheikh Haji Ibrahim of Kerbela

Author: Fairfax L. Cartwright

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781230363431

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... art manifested unto us on the placid Mirror of the Lake. Floating on the Waters of Nothingness thou art the reflexion of the Supreme Beauty, the Supreme Rest, to which all things tend, to which all things must return. * * * The Unity is the only Absolute Reality, therefore when He manifesteth Himself He can only do so within Himself against the Mirror of His Negation, the Mirror of Absolute Unreality. Is not the Manifestation therefore the consciousness in the Unity of His Absolute Reality? And is not the Mirror of Unreality likewise a consciousness in the Unity that He alone existeth, that He alone is the Absolute Reality, that beyond Him is Nought? The Unity absorbeth all within Himself, both the Mirror in which He gazeth, which is the consciousness of His Ubiquity, and the Manifestation, which is the consciousness of His Qualities, His Glory, His Splendour. The mind of man is conscious of the Unity of the Absolute; it is also conscious that the Absolute to manifest Himself doeth so through the Negation of Himself; and the mind is also conscious that the Manifestation of the Absolute is the Creation, the expression of His Qualities. Therefore to the mind the Essence of the Absolute appeareth not as one Essence but as three Essences, and yet the mind is conscious that the Absolute is but one Essence alone. Thus there are three Elements and yet but one Element. This is the great mystery; who can explain it? * * * Oh! crystal sphere filled with the clear water of the spring, into thee I drop fragments of the crystalline salt of the sea, and its qualities--its saltness--dost thou absorb within thyself neither changing in bulk nor in limpidity. Oh! mirror of the crystal sphere, thou holdest within thyself the limpid water and the...