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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Spiritual States



In his treatise on the Malamatiyya, Sulami (d. 1021) wrote: "Spiritual states are valuable assets deposited in the hearts of their trustees; whoever externalizes them forfeits the rank of a trustee."

~ The Heritage of Sufism, ed. L. Lewisohn, p. 608.

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