Spiritual Psychology: The Fourth Intellectual Journey in Transcendent Philosophy : Volumes VIII and IX of the AsfarPresents the rethinking of the tradition of Islamic philosophical psychology on the most profound questions and issues pertaining to the soul. This book includes the views of the ancient Greek philosophers and physicians, Muslim philosophers, theologians, Sufis, theosophists and physicians, and the teachings of the Qur'an. |
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Contents
Chapter I | 1 |
On the quiddity of the absolute soul | 15 |
On the explanation of the immateriality of | 33 |
On the enumeration of the faculties of the soul | 42 |
Chapter III | 63 |
On the act of the faculty of digestion | 69 |
On these faculties which are double in some | 72 |
On the reason why the faculties such as of growth | 80 |
Chapter X | 447 |
On the misfortune which is contrary to the real | 457 |
On how the Active Intellect is attained in | 466 |
On the explication of the sensible felicity | 472 |
On the different positions of the people regarding | 490 |
On the differences in degrees in mankind | 499 |
The admonition on the nobility of the Science | 508 |
Chapter XI | 515 |
On the investigation of the views about | 91 |
On the allusion to the number of faculties of | 110 |
On these levels of the soul | 117 |
On which organ is generated first | 123 |
On the difference among these faculties | 129 |
On the faculty of touch and its states | 138 |
On the faculty of smell | 144 |
On the faculty of vision | 154 |
On what the adherents of the theory of rays hold | 166 |
On the necessity of the mediation of a transparent | 171 |
Chapter V | 178 |
On the faculty of imagination | 184 |
On the explication that soul is all the faculties | 192 |
On the refutation of the view that the soul does | 201 |
On the numerous views of the ancients | 212 |
Chapter VI | 228 |
On the proofs from the transmitted sciences | 264 |
Chapter VII | 281 |
On the explanation of the above important issue | 295 |
The soul is not corrupted at the corruption of | 324 |
The discourse on the Illuminated Place of Return | 332 |
The Cause of rational soul is some immaterial | 338 |
On the refutation of the different kinds | 348 |
On dispelling the remaining doubts for | 366 |
On the completion of insight into this issue | 384 |
For every individual human there is one essence | 390 |
On the weakness of the argument of the author | 398 |
On the first connecting place of the soul in | 406 |
On the attributes of the human soul | 418 |
On the manner of the ascent of the perceptions | 424 |
On the faculties of the soul connected to the body | 432 |
On the conclusion of what we have presented | 525 |
On removing the doubt of the deniers of | 531 |
On the real grave | 546 |
On the Rising | 552 |
On elucidating that human soul has multiple | 558 |
On elucidating that man has multiple innumerable major resurrections | 561 |
On the reminder that death is right and the Rising is right | 563 |
On the allusion to the Resurrection of all existents | 568 |
On the meaning of the Hour | 595 |
On the meaning of the blowing of the Trumpet | 596 |
Minor and Major | 599 |
On which body will be resurrected in the next world | 602 |
On the state of the people of inner eye over here | 603 |
On the Path | 605 |
On the spreading of the Scrolls and the display of the Books | 611 |
On the reality of the Reckoning and Scale | 617 |
On the allusion to the groups of people on the Day of Resurrection | 624 |
On the states occurring on the Day of Resurrection | 626 |
On the explication of the quiddity of the Paradise and Hell | 638 |
On the allusion to the places of manifestation of the Paradise and Hell | 648 |
On the gates of the Paradise and Hell | 649 |
On the completion of the insight about the states of the Paradise and Hell | 655 |
On how the people of Hell abide forever in the Hell | 666 |
On the clarification of the knowledge of the Hell its matter and form | 680 |
On determining the substratum of pains and punishments in the Hell | 686 |
On the allusion to the guards of Hell and their number | 689 |
On the allusion to the levels of wayfaring towards | 692 |
Glossary of Terms | 708 |
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