Inscendence as a complementary word to the transcendence brings you contemplations on various topics from the perspective of the reflective, associative and internal intelligence. A journey into depths to find, like Rumi said, the “Messiah, in my heart, I bear.” (مسيحا در دلم پيدا و من بيمار می گردم).
Enjoy the articles. Take them in. More than philosophical discussions or my attempts to convince you of anything, approach them as gentle meditations. Let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows. Perhaps they invite you to dream or to look at Reality with an expanded gaze.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
The Salvation Through Love
The mystic who is on the path of Love, may experience both and know the feeling of both very strongly. When the Beloved is distant, and shows no sign, the lover experiences hell, because the lover cannot see his own self. The spiritual agony the lover feels can be so painful that the physical pain in that moment would serve as a relief. The lover, likewise, experiences Heaven every time the Beloved is near and when the lover recognises him. Every time the lover forgets, the lover experiences hell, every time the lover remembers, he experiences heaven. Some lovers may desire a perpetual remembrance, or a perpetual heaven but there are those, like Mirza Ghalib who do not. These love their yearning, their pain, their fire in desiring the Beloved, as much as they love the meetings, because it is in the absence, that they become aware of the extent of their love:
Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos
For this reason, there is a need for individual water carriers, because individual water carriers are the ones who make sure that the Truth is not forgotten. In profane times, even spiritual authority can be polluted and corrupted, but we can always appeal and look towards our Lord, towards that part of the Great Man in which the friends of our soul still live. There are angels, bodhisattvas, imams, saints, sages, mystics, who are still very much alive.
Dwelling in Emptiness
Dwelling in the emptiness that is beyond space and time, beyond relating the phenomena to past or present, we allow the phenomena to show its inner truth. The perceiver and the perceived break the boundary between one another and there is nothing but the purity of the phenomena which arise in an never ending sequence, always new and always different.
God’s Defiant Lovers
For many of these "mad mystics", challenging, insulting God like in the poem above was not foreign. In other poems, the same mystics may express complete enamourment with God. A materialist may simply call it schizophrenic but for a mystic this is the usual dance between polarities - one polarity which is the feeling of God's distance and the rejection of the demiurge, and the other, which is the feeling of God's closeness and the death within the Absolute.