The Æ0N 0f IBLIS

[EtuMalku]

IBLIS! The Great and Noble Heretic!
The Supreme Model of Separation between “I” and “Consciousness”.
The Æ0N 0f IBLIS is Upon Us All!​

"Iblis, the Great and Noble Heretic! Through Iblis man will achieve non-union with the natural universe and embrace the Prince of Darkness and His Gift of the Black Flame. They will come to know that Iblis is the model of separation of “I” and “Consciousness”, independent of the Absolute. Man will come to know he too can become a Supreme Spiritual Creature of his Universe. The teachings of Iblis will birth the formation first of heretical Sufi Sects, then Magical Orders, a proliferation of the Arts, and free-thinking that will obliterate the right-hand paths of Abraham."

- 'Amir Alzzalam
ابن إبليس​

 

[EtuMalku]

It is Iblis who enables Man to become consciously aware of his Isolate Consciousness found in all sentient beings. Iblis is the Perfected Man, or in the words of the great Sufi Heretic Ibn Arabi,“The Greatest Shaykh”. Iblis does not supplement himself before the intellect, for Iblis is the Imagination.

Iblis is symbolized as a Black Light (Flame), the Dark Tresses of the Beloved, and the Guardian of the Inner Realm. Here is the alchemical Midnight Sun and the Hindu concept of Maya which enlightens us to the objective universe as illusion and seduction, that the tresses at times reveal the face of the Beloved (Self) and at other times veils it.

The powers of man, both spiritual and physical become obedient to the spirit, but the imagination does not. The Arabic term is ‘Wahm’ and may be interpreted as the ‘imaginal faculty’, without images there will be no spiritual realization for Reality can only be experienced through its manifestation. Iblis is the Guardian of the Threshold, an ambiguous and liminal No-Place, the land of the Imagination . . . The Desert!
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كتاب العواء في ليلة الصحراء
Kitab Eawa' fi Laylat Alsahra'
The Book of Howling in the Desert Night
'Amir Alzzalam

 

[Guitar's Cry]

This sounds ubermensch-ish. Rather than Iblis being the "perfected man" it sounds closer to Iblis being the catalyst that leads to a greater understanding of an individual?

Sometimes my ego bows to my superego, sometimes to my Id.

 

[EtuMalku]

This sounds ubermensch-ish. Rather than Iblis being the "perfected man" it sounds closer to Iblis being the catalyst that leads to a greater understanding of an individual?

Sometimes my ego bows to my superego, sometimes to my Id.

'perfected man' as in one's Greater Self being the perfect model of oneself. But, the catalyst idea is spot on! You get it . . .

 

[EtuMalku]

Azazel, now as Iblis becomes the Guardian of the Threshold, a doorway between worlds, a land of the Imagination. Iblis no longer needs the white light of heaven, he is the power of Imagination, his Light is now the paradoxical
moonbeams of Black Light (Flame). Iblis presides over the Underworld (the unconsciousness) and builds an army from the angels who followed him. He will walk the earth among God’s created man and show him that he no longer needs to be obedient to the Spirit, for man too has Imagination. Iblis and his fallen army will teach man how to create the tools and develop the skills that were forbidden to him, man will learn the Black Art of Sorcery.
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كتاب العواء في ليلة الصحراء
Kitab Eawa' fi Laylat Alsahra'
The Book of Howling in the Desert Night
'Amir Alzzalam

 

[EtuMalku]

"The Gift of Shaitan/Set, being individual perception and deific consciousness. The Black Flame or Black Light of Iblis is the gift of individual awakening which separates the magician from the natural universe, being an Antinomian gift of Luciferian perception. The Black Flame is strengthened by the initiation of the Black Adept, who is able to balance a spiritual path with the physical world."
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Michael W. Ford

 

[EtuMalku]

One Sufistic school, founded by Ibn Arabi has another interpretation of why Iblis would not bow down. They say that Iblis represents the Imagination which would not prostrate itself to the Intellect. “Imagination ... both dissipates and concentrates the faculty of remembrance and seduces both to 'sin and rebellion’ and to the vision of the divine-in- things.”

If there are left-hand path characteristics to be found anywhere in the philosophically right-hand path tradition of Islam, it should be in Sufism. Indeed there are important fleeting glimpses of sophisticated left-hand path ideas in these sects.

To some Sufis, Iblis is seen as a manifestation of Allah’s majesty. They say that he refused to submit to the God’s command because he was totally focused on the Absolute and would not dilute that focus by worshipping anything else. Islamic thought again brings up the topic of the dual heritage of the left-hand path — the carnal and the intellectual. A mystical view is that Iblis is the carnal soul (nafs).
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Lords of the Left Hand Path
Dr. Stephen Flowers

 

[crossfire]

I have a silly question: why would the Imagination "bow" to the Intellect? Wouldn't that be counterproductive? How does "thinking inside of the box" further your growth and evolution?

 

[EtuMalku]

I have a silly question: why would the Imagination "bow" to the Intellect? Wouldn't that be counterproductive? How does "thinking inside of the box" further your growth and evolution?

Counterproductive for who? The Imagination is Šayṭān Iblis who did NOT bow to the Intellect.

From Aziz ad-Din Nasafi's treatise on "The Perfect Man":
"God delegated his vicegerent to represent him in this microcosm, this divine vicegerent being the “intellect”. When the “intellect” had taken up the vicegerency in this microcosm, all the angels of the microcosm prostrated before it, except “imagination”, which did not, refusing to bow, just as when Adam assumed the vicegerency in the macrocosm, all the angels prostrated to him, except Eblis, who did not. . . .

Six persons emerged from the third heaven: Adam, Eve, Satan, Eblis, the Peacock, and the Snake. Adam is the spirit, Eve the body, Satan nature, Eblis imagination, the Peacock lust, and the Snake wrath. When Adam approached the tree of intellect, he left the third heaven and entered the fourth. All the angels prostrated before Adam, except Eblis, who refused. That is to say, all the powers, spiritual and physical, became obeisant and obedient to the spirit, except imagination, which refrained from doing so."

The Imagination both dissipates and concentrates the faculty of remembrance, and seduces both to “sin and rebellion” and to the vision of the divine-in-things. According to lbn 'Arabi himself, without images there can be no spiritual realization at all, for the undifferentiated oneness of the Real can be experienced only through its manifestation as (or in) the multiplicity of creation.

Šayṭān ( شَيْطَان ) is the guardian of a threshold, as Ayn al-Qozat explained, and a doorway is an isthmus, a space-between-worlds, an ambiguous and liminal no-place-place, a land of the imagination. In the West, only William Blake recognized the Devil as the imagination; in Sufism, this identity has been clear since at least the tenth century. The Sufis who defended Šayṭān were not defending or excusing evil, but rather telling a secret: “evil” has only a relative existence, and it is “merely human.” It is the “shaitan” in each of us which we must “convert to Islam,” as the Prophet said. But the very means by which we carry out this self-alchemy is presided over by that very same force, the power of our imagination, lit by paradoxical moonbeams of Black Light — Iblis himself.

In simpler terms, the Intellect would represent the objective universe while the Imagination represents our subjective universes.

 

[crossfire]

Counterproductive for who? The Imagination is Šayṭān Iblis who did NOT bow to the Intellect.

From Aziz ad-Din Nasafi's treatise on "The Perfect Man":
"God delegated his vicegerent to represent him in this microcosm, this divine vicegerent being the “intellect”. When the “intellect” had taken up the vicegerency in this microcosm, all the angels of the microcosm prostrated before it, except “imagination”, which did not, refusing to bow, just as when Adam assumed the vicegerency in the macrocosm, all the angels prostrated to him, except Eblis, who did not. . . .

Six persons emerged from the third heaven: Adam, Eve, Satan, Eblis, the Peacock, and the Snake. Adam is the spirit, Eve the body, Satan nature, Eblis imagination, the Peacock lust, and the Snake wrath. When Adam approached the tree of intellect, he left the third heaven and entered the fourth. All the angels prostrated before Adam, except Eblis, who refused. That is to say, all the powers, spiritual and physical, became obeisant and obedient to the spirit, except imagination, which refrained from doing so."

The Imagination both dissipates and concentrates the faculty of remembrance, and seduces both to “sin and rebellion” and to the vision of the divine-in-things. According to lbn 'Arabi himself, without images there can be no spiritual realization at all, for the undifferentiated oneness of the Real can be experienced only through its manifestation as (or in) the multiplicity of creation.

Šayṭān ( شَيْطَان ) is the guardian of a threshold, as Ayn al-Qozat explained, and a doorway is an isthmus, a space-between-worlds, an ambiguous and liminal no-place-place, a land of the imagination. In the West, only William Blake recognized the Devil as the imagination; in Sufism, this identity has been clear since at least the tenth century. The Sufis who defended Šayṭān were not defending or excusing evil, but rather telling a secret: “evil” has only a relative existence, and it is “merely human.” It is the “shaitan” in each of us which we must “convert to Islam,” as the Prophet said. But the very means by which we carry out this self-alchemy is presided over by that very same force, the power of our imagination, lit by paradoxical moonbeams of Black Light — Iblis himself.

In simpler terms, the Intellect would represent the objective universe while the Imagination represents our subjective universes.

I'm thinking (is that a dirty word?) that it is the top-down hierarchal structure that is the problem here. Iblis was correct to "refuse to bow" in this respect. Your mileage may vary.

 

[crossfire]

What a great way to shut down intellect and thinking! Have everything else bow to it. lol