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Corbin, Henry - And Ibn El-Arabi
Identifier
006328
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
From a numbering point of view we can see that the centre of the heavenly realm is 10, the Trinity is nine, the stars are eight and then the next levels – the planets are seven downwards.
Note that none of this is physical it is describing the layout of the Egg and its spheres
Fursus al-hikam was by Ibn El-Arabi
A description of the experience
Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth – Henry Corbin [translated by Nancy Pearson] 1977
The eighth heaven, the heaven containing the ‘fortresses’ or constellations of the Zodiac, the heaven of the Fixed stars (Kursi), the firmament
Da’ud Qaysari- commentary on Fursus al-hikam [translated by Henry Corbin and Nancy Pearson]
This interworld contains the Throne (the supreme heaven), the Firmament (the Heaven of the Fixed stars), the Seven Heavens and the Earths, and everything all of these contain