Wisdom Of The Unseen

Wisdom of the Unseen An Inquiry into the Reality of Things By

Syed Amir Raza ISBN: 978-1499390995 Table of Content

No. of Pages: 252 INDEX

This book uses traditional ontological approaches especially that of Mulla Sadra to interpret the physical world and its connection with God and Angels in order to give answers to a lot of basic questions about this world and life. The following are some of such questions this book answers logically in a simple to understand way:  Is this World a reality or just an illusion?  What is the true reality of Space and Time?  Is Space really limitless and what are the reasons for its limitlessness?  Does Time really exist or does it only appear to pass in our minds?  Is this World created by itself or by a supernatural being called God?  What is the Proof of God’s existence?  Do Angels also exist? And how?

 How did God and Angels create this World?  Do God and Angels affect the daily events of this world? and how?  Where are God and Angels located?  Why man cannot see God and Angels?  What is the Purpose of the World’s Creation?  Does Man have a free will? And is God the source of evils in this World?  Will this World continue to exist for ever? This book contains rare and uncommon material as this book reawakens an ancient paradigm that has been lost by humanity long ago. This material may be very useful for philosophers, theologians, spiritualists, cosmologists and other researchers as well as for general inquisitive readers. To get the book, click http://www.CreateSpace.com/4760604

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

5

PART I: POSSIBLE KINDS OF WORLDS

21

1. Things, Physical Things and Metaphysical Things

23

PART II: UNSEEN ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL WORLD

37

2. Actuality and Potentiality in Physical World

39

3. Time and Space in Physical World

61

4. Ambiguity of Unity in Physical World

76

5. Individuality of Things in Physical World

87

6. Motion and Change in Physical World

94

7. Knowledge and Physical World

107

8. Appearance and Reality of Physical World

127

PART III: GOD, ANGELS AND PHYSICAL WORLD

135

9. Dependency and Contingency of Physical World

137

10. Creation of Physical World by God and Angels

151

11. Actions of God and Angels in Physical World

167

12. Knowledge and Metaphysical Worlds

181

13. Unity and Transcendence of Divine Principle

191

14. Sovereignty and Goodness of Divine Will

203

15. Divine Immutability and End of Physical World

219

Conclusion

229

Glossary of Important Terms References

236 242

Index

249

INDEX

A Actuality, 42 Additional Actualizing Factor Principle of, 50 Agnosticism, 9 Al-Farabi, 25, 92 Ambiguity in Existence, 79, 194 Ambiguity in Knowledge, 125 Ambiguity in Unity, 79 Analytical Sentences, 15 Angels. See Intellectual Principles Angular Motion, 71, 95 Animal Forms, 149 Anti-matter, 8, 46, 49, 56, 142 Associationist Psychology, 77 Attribute or Attributive Meaning, 17 B Big Bang, 8, 9, 228 Bodily Unities, 80 Body, 33 Body-abstracted Unity, 80

C Conditional Contingents, 144 Contingents, 138 Continuous Creation, 166, 179 Continuous Quantity, 63 Contradictory Categories, 13 Contradictory Complement, 11 Copernicus, 7 Cosmic Motion, 103 in Cycles, 222 Cosmological Proof, 165 Cyclic Closing, 15 D Darwin, 55, 149 Democritus, 36 Descartes, 8 Differentia, 52 Direction, 62 Divine Act, 222 Divine Transcendence, 196 Divine Will, 204 Division by Dichotomy, 13 DNA, 133, 146 Dream, 113, 184 E Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, 67, 68, 72, 105, 115 Electro-magnetic Force, 177 Electromagnetic Waves, 35, 85, 101, 105, 143 Electroweak Force, 177 Essence or Essential Meaning, 17 Eternity, 179 Evident Truths, 15 Evidently True Concepts, 14 Evidently True Facts, 13 Evidently True Laws, 12 Evil, 214 Evolutionary Theory, 55 Existence, 24 Existence-Limitation Duality, 195 Existential Aspect, 195 as Source of Human Sovereignty, 214 Existential Cause, 144

Existential Dependency, 144 External Intellectual Knowledge, 125 Extrospection, 14 F First Effect, 165 Form, 43 Formal Logic, 16 Formless Matter. See Prime Matter Free Will, 203, 205, 206 Fundamentum Divisionis, 13

Intellectual Actualities, 125 Intellectual Knowledge, 109 Intellectual Principles, 154 Internal Motion of Space-object, 67, 106 Introspection, 14 K Kant, 19, 25, 26, 132, 133 Knowledge, 108 types, 110 L

G Galileo, 7 Generality, 88 Genus, 52 Goethe, 7 Goodness, 214 Gravitational Force, 177 Guenon, Rene, 7 H Horizontal Ambiguity in Existence, 194 Horizontal Inability of Human Knowledge, 224 Human Free Will, 169, 210 as Cause of Motion, 169 Compatibility with Divine Omniscience, 213 Compatibility with Divine Will, 210 I Ibn-e-Arabi, 19, 25 Identity, 90, 92 Imagined Actualities, 125 Imagined Knowledge, 109 Impossibilities, 138 Impossibility of Connectivity of Instants Principle of, 99 Indefinite Continuity, 15 Indefinite Divisibility of Space, 64 Indefinite Entities, 111 Indefinite Extension of Space, 226 Indefinite Succession of Time, 226 Individuality, 27, 89 Inertia, 168 Infinite, 141

Last Differential Form, 54 Law of Causation, 16 Law of Conservation of Matter, 58 Law of Excluded Middle, 11 Law of Identity, 11 Law of non-Contradiction, 11 Law of Uniformity of Nature, 16 Leibniz, 13 Limitation Aspect, 195 as Source of Evil, 218 as Source of Human Subjugation, 214 Location, 62 Location Points, 32 M Material Actualities, 124 Material Logic, 16 Matter, 43 Mental Existence, 27, 111 Mental Intellectual Knowledge, 125 Metaphysical World, 32 Modern Thoughts, 6 Morley-Michelson Experiment, 105 Motion, 97 types, 95 Mover, 171 Mulla Sadra, 18 Multiplicity, 29 Multi-sensed Quiddities, 117 N Necessary Existence, 137 as Creator of all Worlds, 165 as First Cause, 165

as First Principle, 165, 199 as Immutable Mover, 219 as Infinite and Perfect Being, 141 as Omnipotent God, 178, 207 as Omniscient God, 202 as Pure Knowledge, 187 as Pure Unitary Thing, 141, 166 Unity of, 164, 196 Newton’s Laws of Motion, 68 Nihilism, 16 Nonsensical Sentences, 15 Non-shape Forms, 47 Noumenon, 129

Principle of Requirement of Donor’s Possession, 151 Principle of Sufficient Reason, 13, 144 Problem of Free Will, 213 Proofs of God’s Existence, 165 Psyche, 33 Pure Unitary Things, 31

O Ontological Proof, 165 Ontological Worldview, 234

R Real Existence, 25 as Source of Last Differential Form, 59 as Source of Motions, 100 as Source of Physical Attributes, 74 Primacy of, 128 Reflexive Actions, 169 Relativism, 9 Russell, Bertrand, 19, 26, 132, 133

P Pantheism, 193 Paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, 65, 98 Parmanades, 25 Partially Physical Partially Metaphysical Things, 33 Partially Sovereign Being, 210 Perpetuity, 179 Phenomenological Metaphysics, 77 Phenomenon, 129 Physical Attributes, 62 as Comparative Relation, 73 Motion in, 71 Physical Event, 31 Physical Thing, 31, 33 as a Continuous Entity, 35 Physical World, 32 as a Gigantic Physical Thing, 62 Physico-theological Proof, 165 Plurality Paradoxes, 65 Possibilities. See Contingents Post-multiplicity Generality, 156 Potentiality, 42 Pre-multiplicity Generality, 155 Preparatory Causes, 145 Preparatory Dependency, 145 Primary Time, 72, 221 Prime Matter, 48 Principle of Essentiality, 18

Q Quality, 61 Quantitative Motion, 95 Quantity, 62 Quiddity, 54 as Appearance, 128

S Saint Thomas Aquinas, 19 Sensed Actualities, 125 Sensed Evidently True Facts, 14 Sensed Knowledge, 109 Shape Forms, 44 Singularity, 228 Skepticism, 10 Sleep, 184 Soul. See Psyche Sovereignty. See Free Will Space, 62 Relativity of, 67 Space-object, 35 as a Physical Thing, 66 as Part of Physical Things, 35 Spatial Motion, 95 Species, 53 Steiner, Rudolf, 7 Strong Nuclear Force., 177 Subjugation, 205 Substance, 77

Sufism, 6 Superstring, 40, 56 Synthetic Sentences, 15 T Taoism, 6, 19 Theodicy, 214 Theory of Natural Selection, 55 Time, 63, 179 Time Cycles, 221 Time of Occurrence, 63 Traditional Thoughts, 5 Trans-substantial Motion, 71, 95 differences with Attributive Motions, 101

Uni-sensed Quiddities, 117 Unity, 28 Unity of Knower, Known and Knowledge, 183 Unperceivable Form, 46 V Vegetative Forms, 149 Vertical Ambiguity in Existence, 194 Vertical Inability of Human Knowledge, 188 W Weak Nuclear Force, 177 Wittgenstein, 15, 247 World as a Possibility, 199 Worlds as Levels of Knowledge, 199

U Unconditional Contingents, 144

Z Zeno of Elea, 65, 98