Message #27392

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Thank you Steve for sharing this video. I thought it was interesting to witness or feel the scene of someones death. I wonder if this was a recent impression or if it was indeed just a lucid dream. If it was a successful astral projection it makes me curious to the way we perceive time in this realm. Just like in the video,
Murshid Inayat Khan teaches that in man contain both heavenly and earthly knowledge. The astral is as natural a realm as is the physical immediate reality. Still there are planes higher than the astral- and if I remember his teachings the astral is the realm of the mind where the Jinns reside(I THINK).
He breaks the elements like this... Bone, skin and flesh is earth. Blood saliva and perspiration is water. The heat in the body and digestive system is fire...  Breath and movement air... The ether is something like passion and that which controls our activities...
Then he says these realms are always present:
angelic, jinn and earth...

Taken from:
Volume V - Spiritual Liberty
Part I
A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty - London 1914

MANIFESTATION
The only Being has manifested Himself through seven different planes of existence, to accomplish His desire of being recognized:

Tanzih:

1. Zat – the unmanifested
2. Ahadiat – plane of Eternal Consciousness
3. Wahdat – plane of consciousness
4. Wahdaniat – plane of abstract ideas

Tashbih:

5. Arwah – the spiritual plane
6. Ajsam – the astral plane
7. Insan – the physical plane

There are, again, seven aspects of manifestation:

1. Sitara – planetary
2. Mahtab – lunar
3. Aftab – solar
4. Madeniat – mineral kingdom
5. Nabitat – vegetable kingdom
6. Haywanat – animal kingdom
7. Insan – human kingdom

Insan, being the ideal manifestation, recognizes God by the knowledge of his own self. Man reaches this perfection by development through five grades of evolution:

1. Nasut – material plane
2. Malakut – mental plane
3. Jabarut – astral plane
4. Lahut – spiritual plane
5. Hahut – plane of consciousness

Each grade of development prepares a person for a higher one, and perfects him in five different grades of humanity:

1. Adam – the ordinary man
2. Insan – the wise man
3. Wali – the holy man
4. Qutb – the saint
5. Nabi – the prophet

The five natures corresponding to these five grades are:

1. Ammara – one who acts under the influence of his senses;
2. Lawwama – one who repents of his follies;
3. Mutmainna – one who considers before taking action;
4. Alima – one who thinks, speaks and acts aright;
5. Salima – one who sacrifices himself for the benefit of others.

The following is a diagram illustrating the planes of Nuzul and Uruj (evolution and involution):

zat to insan

All planes of existence consist of vibrations, from the finest to the grossest kind; the vibrations of each plane have come from a higher one, and have become grosser. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations, he indeed knows all things. Vibrations are of five different aspects, appearing as the five elements:

1. Nur – ether
2. Bad – air
3. Atish – fire
4. Ab – water
5. Khak – earth

In relation to these elements, mankind has five senses:

Basarat – sense of sight the eyes
Samat – sense of hearing the ears
Naghat – sense of smell the nose
Lazzat – sense of taste the tongue
Muss – sense of touch the skin

Through these senses and different organs of the mental and physical existence the Ruh, the soul, experiences life; and when the Ruh receives the highest experience of all phases of existence by the favor of the murshid, then it will have that peace and bliss, the attainment of which is the only object of manifestation.