{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_omy_omy16_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_omy_omy16_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_omy_omy16_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/omy/omy16.htm","summary":"MOHAMMED said, \"The first thing which God created Duplicate function of the Primal Element. was my soul,\" and again, \"My soul was the Primal Element;\" the two therefore are identical. Now the Primal Element, it has been already stated, has two functions, namely, that of receiving from God, and that of conveying to the world.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Oriental Mysticism: Part III: Chapter I. The Saintly and ...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":469}