Good Day Closets

Hi. I want to share my closet with all of you. It’s amazing.
Doris Sumner from Salida ca.

of iintiates’ will any real iintiate (of the Real) ever claim to be so? The pretentious titles of Orders and Tariqats are less than meaningful may God preserve us from a path that goes no further than imitation and pretence (Ismael Hakki Bursevi, Seyh of the Celveti; in his rendering of the Kernel of the Kernel of Seyh al Akbar Muhyiddin ibn Arabi). What matters in the Real World are not humanly created organisations and Orders and hierarchies, but THE Tariqat/ Order (A Mevlevi Seyh told me in Konya many years ago; There is only one tariqat and he didn’t mean Mevlevi or from this or that religious background; he simply meant The Friends of The Real ). All this structure of Corbins making, is supported by the second paragraphs selectivity (I suspect a descent from Suhrawardi’s illuminist’ school, which blended Sufi and European traditions but in so doing caused confusion; European tradition tends towards a view of creation’ in levels of descent from the Divine; Islamic mysticism at its highest levels will flatly deny that there has ever been a separate creation’ at all. Ibn Arabi simply says, there is no creation from nothing . The Sura Ihlas (Purity) asserts that Nothing descended from Him, or extended from Him . Nothing ever left Him). Essentially Sufism will always go against understandings based on hierarchies of Being because like Vedanta or Zen it proceeds from The people of Haqiqa to the people of Haqiqa . There are no stages in realisation or liberation . Know that you are the Self and nothing exists but the Self . There is no such thing as higher or lower in Being . If ego and the world created by it goes, the reality remains. That is all . All the rest of the attractive, interesting, knowledgable, wise-acreing of so many for our own sanity should be exposed to Occam’s Razor take the simple, clearly expressed explanation. Reject the rest.