[...] access to the near)

="trms">science ='lgc'>~/= concrete, ="trms">worldly, ="trms">matter-of-fact, ="trms">present-at-hand, domain of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- political activism has to work with that kind of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> what use is it to save your soul, if you forfeit the ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sci-fi's real frontier ='and'>& Noah's project


the transcendence and transubstantiation of ="trms">science

when ="trms">nature enters, ="trms">religion has to leave. in two equally fatal exit strategies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to limit itself to the inner sanctum of the soul
="lsts lst1">•to flee into the super="trms">natural ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="trms">religion will try in vain to imitate ="trms">scientific ="trms">instruments (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- The Magicians TV series) ='lgc'>+ mis="trms">interpreted ="trms">science ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> taking Bible as if it were geology ="trms">book (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- look at the rising Hollywood films that ="trms">scientifize the events of Bible) ='lgc'>-- projects of connecting ="trms">religion to the ="trms">world='lgc'>]

‘exit ="trms">religion’='lgc'>: it will have lost any pretence of influencing the course of events, its impact will only be decorative

(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) ‘="trms">naturalism’ is only one of four ways in which connections between humans and nonhumans can be established

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contrasts='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*reference chain='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*reproduction='strcls'>*

(="ppl">="ppl">Latour use of the term) ='strcls'>*contrast='strcls'>*='lgc'> = mode of existence

immutable mobiles='lgc'>: to reach something far away through long arrays of ="trms">instruments, you need to make sure that ='strcls'>*necessities and constants are transported='strcls'>* with as little transformation as possible ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to “reach” those entities

="trms">geometry, mathematical entities, inscriptions of all ="trms">sorts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> carry heavy-duty immutable mobiles

(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's immutable mobiles are='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">matter='lgc'> = highly elaborated, ="trms">historically dated, and ="trms">anthropologically ="trms">situated hybrids='strcls'>***
(='lgc'>=/= ‘transportation of indisputable necessities through chains of cause and effect’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">category mistake)

(for physicist='lgc'>:) “the ways we know the ="trms">world='lgc'> = the ways in which the ="trms">world behaves”
(less for chemist)
(not at all for engineer)


(='lgc'>[in a way ='mywrk'>my work has been about investigating vectors and='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*directions='strcls'>*) from knower to what is to be known

the beings of ="nms">ajayeb face lots of causes and lots of effects


="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical consequences of evolutionary theory


='strcls'>***(="ppl">="ppl">Latour's ="trms">positive veiw on) to be a ="ppl">Darwinian='lgc'>: you have to abandon ='thdf'>the notion that all of those ‘organisms’ rest in ‘="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]organim='lgc'>: a hybrid production of re="trms">presentation ='and'>& reference


='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*blind watch maker='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a blind cause acting from behind and reaching the optimum haphazardly
(has substituted the ‘mere transportation of indisputable necessities’ for ='strcls'>*the risks taken by individual organisms to perpetuate, sustain, and reproduce themselves='strcls'>*)
&
='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*intelligent designer='strcls'>* :an intelligence dragging organisms towards the optimum by some predefined plans
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both are grounded in the ='strcls'>*ideology of making and mechanism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•organisms are erased as individual actors
="lsts lst1">•organisms are transformed into the carriers if indisputable necessities
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both tried to save individual organims from their apparent meaninglessness by adding to them an overarching ="trms">narrative re="trms">cited by an other="trms">worldly divinity

(‘necessities’ are often imported)


(Assmans's) ='strcls'>*mosaic division='strcls'>*
(='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">sort of relaxed attitude towards truth)
divisions ahad never beed asked before whether or not they were the “true” ones. they could be added to one another, ="trms">translated into one another, piled on top of one another for additional safety ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contesting the claims to existence of all divinities but one='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a connection between the ="trms">question (irrelevant until then) of worship and a ="trms">question of an absolute (='lgc'>=/= relative) ="trms">difference between true and false

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]iconoclast='lgc'>: “if they are made, then they cannot be real”

monotheism ='lgc'>==allowed='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humans to escape from a too close adhesion چسبنده to the ="trms">natural ="trms">world
Moses's project ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> we have exctracted ourselves from the ="trms">world

(Assmans='lgc'>:) without the transcendence of monotheism we would be left with the mere immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem of transcendence/immanence as only options of relatedness='lgc'>]
(a bad ="trms">story='lgc'>:) secular ="trms">narratives that='lgc'>: the stark immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world will save us from an escapist adherence to the transcendent ="trms">world of beyond ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my Zolmat text is was about the problematization of that view (transcendent ="trms">world of beyond) in Islamicated ="trms">ecological consciousness in ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]


='strcls'>****to move from ideology to recognition='strcls'>**** (of the many ="trms">different contrasts we have lived by without granting them enough room)


the drab and entirly mythical drama of light overcoming darkness


="trms">religious traditio operates by its abilities of two transformation='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. a radical transformation of the far away into the close and the proximate ='lgc'>[='at'>#Zolmat='lgc'>] (dead is alive)
="lstsrd">2. a ="trms">positive view of all artificial transformations (='lgc'>=/= tendencyo conserve what it is)

='strcls'>**what happens if ="trms">religion is allowed to weave its highly ="trms">specific form of transcendence (salvation='qstn'>?) into the fabric of the other two modes of existence='lgc'>: reproduction and reference='qstn'>?

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's dream (and also deep sin)='lgc'>: the urge radically to transform ='strcls'>*that which is given='strcls'>* into ='strcls'>*that which has to be fully renewed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alternative, dream of a ="trms">different ="trms">world
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to grasp this ="trms">world (and only this ="trms">world) otherwise='lgc'>]

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look at spec over the ="trms">spectacular
(in ="nms">ajayeb)

i can't give you a dialectical con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion

maybe a mouth-full

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='lgc'>[Paul ="ppl">Shepard='lgc'>]

our perception of ="trms">animals as the ="trms">language of ="trms">nature in Thinking ="trms">Animals and The Others; the “="trms">natural” way of ="trms">childrearing in ="trms">Nature and Madness; and the bear as a dominant sacred ="trms">animal connecting people ceremonially to the earth in The Sacred Paw.

Octavio Paz reminds us='lgc'>: “The ="trms">past reappears because it is a hidden ="trms">present. I am speaking of the real ="trms">past, which is not the same as ‘what took place.’ . . . What took place is indeed the ="trms">past, yet there is something that . . . takes place but does not wholly recede into the ="trms">past, a constantly returning ="trms">present.”

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]

it is so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to say any thinker, ="trms">writer, artist, or phiosopher ‘was of his/her own time.’ nobody has ever been in their own time, never. we are constantly out of time.

things occur in Malakut, not in the time of this ="trms">world.
it is a ="trms">matter of ="trms">interior ="trms">history, exoteric in the etymological sense of the word, subtle ="trms">history whose events do not take place in the exterior ="trms">world of objects, but in the subtle ="trms">world of lived states, events in the Malakut, in the ="trms">world of the ‘Soul,’ in the ‘Heaven’ or the ‘Hell’ which man carries within himself.
(and this is precisely what is ‘changing someone's ="trms">story’ is about. ‘let me change the rhythm of your ="trms">story. let me change your ="trms">history.’ ='lgc'>~= ="trms">storytelling)
this ="trms">history='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--="trms">interior ="trms">wild facts='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--="trms">intermingles with his wills, and objectives itself in the web of exterior facts. these are events of ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh, Shahname شاهنامه, Qur'an قرآن, Grail Cycle and so on, the events of this ="trms">history (inspire parables='qstn'>? and) make up sacred ="trms">history (tarikh-e ghodsi تاریخ قدسی‌) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">historicity
='strcls'>*the ="trms">question always remains='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-what ='strcls'>*is of this ="trms">world='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what is the organ of perception='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-does oneself need to ‘belong’ to this sacred ="trms">history in order to come to pass (in the Malakut ملکوت)='qstn'>? (being born in it, etc.)

='lgc'>[what was your fetish again='qstn'>? what was your Qibla قبله='qstn'>? what would be...='lgc'>]

platonic ideals, periodization of sacred ="trms">history

ملا صدرا Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra revolutionized the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of being, in reversing the order of ="trms">priority of essence (mahiat ماهیت). he gives ="trms">priority to existence (vojud وجود) ='lgc'>: that means, it is the act and mode of existing that determine the ="trms">nature of essence. the act of existing is in effect capable of multitude of degrees of intensification or of degradation.

(عجایبِ ="nms">ajayeb-e) man='lgc'>: human-faced demon (ajene ensan-nama اجنه انسان‌نما) / ... / ... / ="trms">sublime state of perfect Man
="prgrph">-and body passing through a multitude of states ='lgc'>: Hayula هیولا='qstn'>? / ... / jesm (جسم corruptible ="trms">worldly body) / ... / divine body (jesm-e elahi جسم الهی)

Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra is the philosopher of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses and ="trms">palingenesis (estehaleh-ha استحاله‌ها ='and'>& rastakhiz-ha رستاخیز‌ها)
='strcls'>*="trms">phenomenology of the act of existing='strcls'>*


there was a time (12th century='lgc'>--my favorite) when ="ppl">Avicenna ابن سینا was ="trms">translated into Latin (in Toledo,) a moment when our cultures in east and west cor="trms">responded to the same type, a moment when the concept of ="trms">science was inseparable from its spiritual context. ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--> think of the alchemists for whom the operation undertaken in the laboratory only attained its end if it was accompanied by an ="trms">interior transmutation of the man='lgc'>--that is to say only if it effected the ="trms">interior birth (of spiritual man)

Alchemist's chemistry
="ppl">="frds scrmbld">Nicolas ="ppl">="ppl">Oresme's ="trms">geometry
='lgc'>[out of ="trms">history='lgc'>]
="ppl">Descartes’ ="trms">geometry is also out of ="trms">history, discontinuous

(for ="ppl">Corbin) ="trms">Modern / Western venture='lgc'> = application of the intelligence to the ="trms">scientific investigation of a ="trms">nature that has been desacralised, which must be violated in order to find out its laws (and to subject its forces to the human will)


the dichotomies or dis="trms">sociation of thought/being, being/action



حیدر آملی ="ppl">Haydar ="ppl">Amuli's delinkings (destroying precisely certain dialectics or dichotomies='lgc'>:)

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Holul حلول, Sodur صدور, Tajasod تجسد
(immanence, transcendence, incarnation)
(the eidos reflected in the mirror='lgc'>--divine in the prophet='lgc'>--remains untouched by the mirror, because the real is not ‘incarnated’ in the eidos, the reflected image)

="prgrph">-alame khiali عالم خیالی='lgc'>: ="trms">imaginaire/Hollywood
="prgrph">-khiale khallagh خیال خلاق (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alame mesal عالم مثال ='lgc'>=/= alame ajsad عالم اجساد) ='lgc'>:
1-khiale mottasel خیال متصل='lgc'>: ="trms">imagining inherent in human
2-khiale monfasel خیال منفصل='lgc'>: ="trms">imaginal apart from human
="prgrph">-alame hess عالم حسس='lgc'>: molk ملک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universe of forgetfulness


Tonekaboni, is against='lgc'>: “mojudate moghayade vahmi faghede tagharor mibashand.” (موجودات مقید وهمی فاقد تقرر میباشند)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vahdate vojud وحدت وجود ='lgc'>=/= vahdate mojud وحدت موجود
='strcls'>*d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='lgc'>: tarde amre mesali طرد امر مثالی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ma'ad dar amre khiali معاد در امر خیالی


="large lg6" stl="font-size:130%"> death, life, ="trms">past, and future are not properties of objects, rather of subjects (anha sefate nafs hastand آنها صفات نفس هستند) ='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]
and you bestow them to objects that you think they are “dead,” “alive,” “from ="trms">past,” or “of future”

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“khorre” or “khorne” ="trms">according to zaratustra='lgc'>: a light o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated from the essence of the divine being and because of that some apparitions have gained hierarchy, and each human capable of a certain ="trms">techne.


='thdf'>the idea of a divine ="trms">presence in ='strcls'>*heikal='strcls'>* هیکل

="trms">according to ="ppl">Socrates='lgc'>: bodies are frames and tools of the selves (nofus نفوس)
="trms">according to ="ppl">Plato, what the self (nafs نفس) does not had essentially that it had to descend into the ="trms">material ="trms">world='qstn'>? what the senses told the self that itself could not say='qstn'>?


an islamic-="nms">iranian ="trms">cosmology='lgc'>:
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-jabarut جبروت (alame oghule karubi عالم اقول کروبی) (Nous)
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-malakut ملکوت (alame nofus عالم نفوس) (Psyche) ='lgc'>--organ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> khiale fa'al خیال فعال (= jesme latife nafs جسم لطیف نفس. niruye khial نیروی خیال is trainded still in middle east. this ="trms">inter-monde is where mater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> im="trms">material ='and'>& immater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material; jesm ruhani جسم روحانی‌ ='and'>& ruh jesmani روح جسمانی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constant happenings of ="trms">historic ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Ma'ad معاد) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> amre mesali امر مثالی
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-molk ملک (omure mshhud امور مشهود) (Sarx)


='lgc'>[="ppl">Ashtiani, 2nd vol, p44, footnote='lgc'>]
ensane okhravie daraye badan (انسان اخروی دارای بدن) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nash'eye jesmanie alame akherat (نشئه جسمانی عالم آخرت)
(baghaye) badane okhravie alame made (بقای بدن اخروی عالم ماده) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hades zamanie (حادث زمانی)


لطیف latif ='lgc'>~= im="trms">material

actual/real ='lgc'>~= a dream between earth and sky


asemanhaye napeydaye nojumi آسمانهای ناپیدای نجومی (celectial skies invisible)
dadehaye vahyi داده‌های وحی (="trms">data of revelation)


="large lg14" stl="font-size:100%"> ="ppl">Avicenna (selselemaratebe ebn-sinaie oghul سلسله‌ مراتب ابن سینایی عقول)='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[each aghl عقل or angle with its own sky and nafs نفس ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a whole universe for itself='lgc'>]
sending from one aghl to the other, till the 10th aghl='lgc'> = unlimited human nafs
10th aghl ='lgc'>~= philosopher's active aghl ='lgc'>~= ruh al ghodos روح القدس

(سهروردی) in ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>: angle and nafs are in the same trip

aghle ="nms">hayulayi عقل هیولایی


='lgc'>[="ppl">Averroesian/ابن رشدی ='lgc'>=/= Avicennian/ishraghi/اشراقی='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of the ="trms">intermediate ="trms">world of angles ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> secularization ='lgc'>:
="trms">sociology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- theology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- angelology
(divine ="trms">materiliazation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social ="trms">materialization)
totalitarianism ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ideology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- spirituality (='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? intellectual im="trms">materialism)

(='qstn'>?signing in ="nms">iran='lgc'>:)
ghodsi shodane nahadha='lgc'> = orfi shodane maba'adotabi
قدسی‌ شدن نهادها='lgc'> = عرفی شدن مابعدالطبیعه
sacredization of institutions='lgc'> = secularization of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics


the tragedy is not the affirmation of individualism, it is rather the forgetting of the in="trms">finite entity ='lgc'>:
non-mystic monotheism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a personalized (incarnation of) God (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything ‘personal’ is subject to death and negation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> entrance of God in collectivism


تغییر ماهیت عالم taghyire mahiate alam (change in the essence of the universe) is the subject of study for ="nms">iranian ancient philosophies and ="trms">cosmologies

="large lg14" stl="font-size:131%"> contemplation (moshahede nazari مشاهده نظری) ='lgc'>~= action
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>~= creating (that insensible speculative ="trms">world) (the ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb and its siblings is created and stated in my inner vision)
='lgc'>[hush-e nazari هوش نظری, ability to abstract, is the ability to look from above='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[(jaleb budan-e) heja-e bimani هجای بیمعنی, ="trms">interest for meaningless ="trms">morpheme='lgc'>]

(human's function='lgc'>:) the trans="trms">figurative function of the transcendental machine (karkhaneye mojarad-sazi کارخانه مجرد‌سازی, by Sheikh Muhammad Tabatabayi)



="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ='strcls'>*ta'vil bayad dar jahate axe harkate jami va moshtarek bashad تأویل باید در جهت عکس حرکت جمعی و مشترک باشد
(="trms">interpretation/hermeneutics ='lgc'>=/= commons/collectivism)
(="trms">according to ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>:) haghighate lafzi حقیقت لفظی (="trms">verbal/="trms">literal truth) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical entity
face/surate/صورت/apparition/majaz/مجاز/="trms">trope ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> truth/reality



(سهروردی ="ppl">Sohrevardi's ="trms">accord='lgc'>:) up in the highest point in the hierarchy of existence there is nur-al-anvar نور‌الانوار (light of lights) which its ="trms">material-removing (de="trms">materialising='qstn'>?) abstraction (tajarode made-zoda تجرد ماده‌زدا) constantly transcends, beyond any other abstraction. ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> first light is o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated from it='lgc'>: anvare ghahere انوار قاهره (='lgc'>~= anvare fereshtegani انوار فرشتگانی) ='lgc'>~= first maleke mogharab ملک مقرب (or Bahman بهمن, Vahumane وهومنه, first of Zoroastrian Amshaspandan امشاسپندان) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (due to their ="trms">interactions='lgc'>:) second light, second maleke mogharab is created ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eshragh اشراق ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eshragh ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eshragh ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ...

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> جسمیت‌شناسی‌ jesmiat-shenasi='qstn'>?

رب النوع rab-ol-no ='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? God of type, of abstract examples, (="ppl">Plato's universals='qstn'>? type, general concept ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is always beyond the horizon, the reality of the type lies beyond a related one that it sustains (‘token’) ='lgc'>["Beyond the horizon there lies a Lion, a Lion more Lion than any more lion. And beyond saying ‘lion,’ which calls forth that Lion, lies yet another, who might just look back. And beyond this eyeing one, lies an undying one, one we call ‘Lion’ because she is a kind.” (="ppl">Kohn, 2009)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apply this idea to the fire)
ارباب الانواع arbab-ol-anva ='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? angelology (="nms">iranians ="trms">loved angels and were good at angelologic thinking, it was a ="trms">technical term in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production regarding ='strcls'>*="trms">categories and types='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Platonic ='lgc'>+ Zoroastrian ='lgc'>+ (shiite) Islamicate ='lgc'>[via ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>] ="trms">cosmologies
="prgrph">-the angel/type that both emerges from and sustains the many lives o[...]