{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_omy_omy20_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_omy_omy20_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_omy_omy20_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/omy20.htm","summary":"This is a 19th-century scholarly exposition of Sufi Islamic metaphysics, drawn from Palmer's *Oriental Mysticism* (1867), presenting core doctrines of the mystical tradition associated with Ibn al-Arabi. The central argument is that humans possess a uniquely divine \"Spirit of Humanity\" breathed directly from God, distinct from the animal, vital, and instinctive spirits shared with other creatures \u2014 and that acquiring this spirit requires suppressing three degraded character types (the animal, brutal, and fiendish) and purifying oneself toward moral and spiritual refinement. The text traces a cosmological arc in which humanity originates from a \"Primal Element\" at the lowest extreme and can ascend through disciplined spiritual practice to the \"Divine Light,\" which is identified with the very Nature of God \u2014 a state Mohammed is said to have personally achieved. A distinctive claim is that the Primal Element and the Spirit of Humanity are ultimately identical, forming a single \"Concomitant Spirit\" that simultaneously governs the entire universe and dwells within the individual human heart. The work draws heavily on Quranic verse and cites Ibn al-Arabi's *Fusus al-Hikam* as a primary authority, situating this as classical Sufi doctrine rather than Palmer's own theology. Readers interested in Sufi cosmology, Islamic mysticism, or 19th-century Western scholarship on Eastern religious thought will find this a concise primary-source digest of those traditions.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Oriental Mysticism: Part V. The Study of Man: Chapter III. Of the Intellectual and Spiritual Development of Man.","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":921}