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"It is known that when the Scriptures speak of the Reality,

they speak in a way that yields to the generality of men the immediate apparent meaning.

The elite, on the other hand,

understand all the meanings inherent in that utterance,

in whatever terms it is expressed."



Al 'Arabi
Bezels of Wisdom, 73
quoted in Reza Shah-Kazemi
_Paths to Transcendence according to Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart_
Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2006, p. 72

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