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HEILIG HOUSE
Heilig House: An Artistic (and Religious?) Revelationby Burt Sommers, for the Atlanta Daily PicayuneJanuary 10, 2011 You wouldn’t expect to find a place of pilgrimage in a 1960s era Atlanta suburb like this one, much less in an unassuming tan stucco craftsman-style home on this tony side street. But the Heilig House is turning heads…
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THE GATHERING
Indeed, your lord is allah, who created the heavens and the earths in six days and then sat upon the throne. Chapter of the Heights, verse 54. I sought out that lord upon the throne on high, but found the throne was empty. There were thousands of millions of luminous beings encircling it and chanting…
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MAGICAL ARKESTRA COSMOS
The cosmos is the tense silence at the beginning of a Sun Ra concert, like a membrane of darkness, the forces of mayhem building on just the other side of it. A baritone note pulses on the hammond organ, and the knock-knock-knock of the dionysian drum visitors who want to come in and spread a…
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THE COMPLETE EXEGESIS
Al-Khattab undertook an exegetical work called Al-Tafsir al-Shamil fi Maarafat al-Kamil, or The Complete Exegesis Toward an Understanding of the Divine Perfection. It began simply enough, aiming for a comprehensive synthesis of the preceding centuries’ scholarship on Qur’anic interpretation. Al-Khattab was well into the third volume and the exegeses on the Chapter of the Cave,…
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HALLAJ & THE EMPTY THRONE
Al-Hallaj scaled Mount Qaf, the highest of mountains, even until his head peeked through the clouds, and then he gained a caught the tail of a passing comet that carried him into the heavens. Then he leapt onto the lowest of the stars, and climbed his way up through the seven heavens, until he arrived…
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THE SIFRIYYA ORDER
The fragment was revealed in the heresiography of Sheikh Malak Ibn Abi Sahib, itself little more than a fragment whose original was lost in a fire at the Baghdad National Library in October 2004. The lines are attributed to a mysterious and possibly fictional figure known as al-Samara’i: And thus the one is transmuted to…
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HEAVENS & EARTHS
The assembly is the configuration of the multitudes of object.angels in the heavens and the earths. There are 100 object.angels in the air heaven, 200 object.angels in the cloud heaven, 500 object.angels in the star heaven, 700 object.angels in the moon heaven, and 1,000 object.angels in the sun heaven. There are 100 object.angels in the…
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THE BIFURCATION OF THE WORLD
Aflaton.mahomet witnessed the remnant of the living world embedded as hidden spores beneath the horizon of immanent things. Each object a cave hira protecting the divine absence, the field of infinite possibility .. it appeared to him as a paradise in the heavens beyond the castle towers of the sultan, or as a fecund ocean…
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THE TRACES OF ALLAH.CIPHER
allah.cipher cannot be known except through traces: openness, emptiness, abundance, striving, and concealment. These are not the attributes of allah.cipher, rather all the objects in the greater worlds and the lesser worlds are attributes of allah.cipher, each one unique, instantaneous, and fleeting. It is in these attributes that the traces emerge, and thus each object…
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