84- An Order of God

In his philosophic principles, Socrates believed that “knowledge of the self” is among the significant notions of philosophy. He says: “know thyself.”
The topics of “macrocosm” and “microcosm” mentioned by scientists and philosophers have influenced Islamic literature, which encourages us to identify the self (self-realization) and to identify God through the essence of the self.
Modern scholars have widespread attention towards knowledge of the self.

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One day, a king summoned his son to evaluate his intellect and said:
I have decided to take away either your most expensive or your least expensive possession. From these two (the most expensive and the least expensive) I will only take one, and I will let you choose. You have until tomorrow morning to think about it and inform me of your decision.
The king's son, whose mindset was drowned in worldly allurements, gold, jewelry, and valuable assets, laughed at the naivety of his father's proposition. He was wondering why his father was asking such a simple question. The next morning, without thinking about the question, he went to his father and said:
"Your majesty – your question did not need 24 hours. I had the answer from the very beginning. You may take away the least expensive possession of mine and leave my most expensive possession."
His father replied: "very well," sighing. He ordered one of his servants to restrain his son, and, despite his resistance and floundering, they covered his nose and mouth. After a short moment, before his son's condition became critical, the king ordered his servant to release him. Before the son's surprised face, the king said:
"Now you understand which one you should have chosen. I ordered to take away the air, which is the least expensive thing, and humans do not consider any price for it. Without it, you almost died. However, no harm would have come to you even if I would have taken all your precious possessions.
You should know that the merciful and almighty God had provided beneficial things with such abundance that people do not consider any value for it. Even if they do, it is usually a nominal price for air, water, iron, and other substances.
Among these, the air is arguably the most beneficial and the least expensive of all."

  Illuminations philosophy, the Peripatetic school, Islamic discussion of Mojaradat and Elmolnafs, old philosophy, and new philosophy have all had many discussions about the spirit's existence. However, they all fail to understand it, and they were merely satisfied with: "we do know that the spirit exists, but we do not know what it is."
They do not know where it comes from, where it goes, and what is its composition.
Even the new philosophy has grown tired of pursuing this issue after many years of studies and inspections and abandoned the topic. The philosophy today wishes to relate the spirit to material things.
Humans consist of body and spirit. They can see the physical body vividly but fail to comprehend the spirit. The New Philosophy will introduce and teach the spirit very well.

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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare

Old philosophers and new spiritualists agree that a mediator must connect and join the spirit and the body, which do not correlate with each other. This mediator is the astral body. Old philosophers named it astral mold or astral body or such names. Europeans call it “Corps astral” (in French), while spiritual scholars call it Perispirit.
Navigating the body is by the spirit and the astral body. Many spiritualists believe that the astral body is the navigator of the body during sleep, while the spirit is the means of navigation in the state of awakening.
Hektor Durville, a renowned spiritualist scholar, refers to the spirit as the chief and the astral body as the deputy chief, who carries out responsibilities in the absence of the chief according to its orders and instructions.