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The Theory of Knowledge · 117 headings · 248 pages

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Introduction: The Theory of Knowledge in the Philosophy of Concretion and Abstractionp. 4
A Note on Method: Why Some Explanations Recurp. 11
CHAPTER ONE — The Founding Principles of Knowledgep. 12
Dismantling Inherited Perception: Towards Abstract Understandingp. 12
Interactive, Participatory Knowledge: From Concretion to Abstractionp. 15
The Ontological Gap between the Thing-in-Itself and the Concretised Thingp. 18
Resetting the Counters: Freeing Consciousness from Indoctrinationp. 21
The Nature, Sources and Wide Limits of Knowledgep. 23
The Levels of Perception: From Dense Matter to the Subtle Spiritp. 26
Flexible Epistemic Ceilingsp. 28
Dismantling the Brain’s Centrality: Intellection Joined to the Spiritp. 30
The Ontological Divide between Bodily and Transcendent Perceptionp. 32
The Outward and the Inward: How the Duality Shapes Consciousnessp. 34
Gradation in Knowledge: From the Facts of Matter to Abstractionp. 36
Relative Knowledge and the Limits of the Traditional “Mind”p. 37
Beyond Pure Nihilism and Excessive Scepticismp. 41
Existential Alignment: The Cosmos in Tune with Rising Consciousnessp. 44
CHAPTER TWO — The Sensory Instruments of Knowledge — the Sensory Heart and the Veils of Concretionp. 48
From the Illusion of Solidity to the Reality of Ascensional Rhythmic Frequencyp. 48
The Sensory Instruments of Knowledge and the Confinement of Perception to the Phenomena of Matterp. 50
The Beating Sensory Heart: The Engine of Sensory Informationp. 52
The Failure of the Sensory Instruments to Pierce the Veils of the Unseenp. 54
How the Sensory Heart Turns Physical Signals into Raw Informationp. 56
The Gradation of Encoding: From the Weight of Touch to the Subtlety of the Wavep. 57
The Illusion of Material Solidity: Dismantling Apparent Density in the World of Concretionp. 61
The Rule of Material Causality and Linear Logic, and Their Effect on Simple Perceptionp. 63
Purifying the Five Senses: The First Step towards Balanced Perceptual Ascentp. 66
The Instruments of Transmission: Speech and Body Language in Concretion and Abstractionp. 68
From Sensory Signals to Information: The Formation of the Empirical Sciencesp. 71
The Contradictions of the Concretised World: The Dualities of Matter and the Strife of Oppositesp. 72
The End of Sensory Knowledge: Its Failure to Grasp the Abstract Infinitep. 74
CHAPTER THREE — The Instruments of Knowledge of an Energetic Nature: The Fiery Fuʾād and the Turning of the Affectsp. 76
The Fuʾād: A Self-Renewing Processor of the Visible Worldp. 76
The Fiery, Jinn Nature: Engine of Experiential Ideas and Affectsp. 78
Processing the Data of the Senses and Turning It into Wave Frequenciesp. 79
The Two Fruits of the Fuʾād’s Processingp. 81
When the Fuʾād Falters: Shocks of Reality and Loss of Perceptual Controlp. 83
Stabilising the Fuʾād: Governing the Affects, Restoring Stabilityp. 85
Hidden Indecencies: The Rhythmic Breach of the Fuʾād’s Networkp. 87
The Burning of the Vessel When the Fuʾād Breaks Free of Insightp. 88
The Fuʾād’s Deceptions: Analytical Intelligence before the Unseenp. 90
The Disciplined Fuʾād: A Faithful Bridge for the Heart of the Higher Selfp. 92
Sensing Parallel Worlds: The Fuʾād Set Free in Energetic Separationp. 94
The Memory of the Fuʾād: Archiving Energies in the Cumulative Dimensionp. 95
Wave Telepathy and Swift Intuition: Beyond Classical Physicsp. 97
The Conflict of the Inner Poles: Stillness of Clay, Blaze of Firep. 98
Functional Integration: Heartbeats in Step with the Fuʾād’s Chargesp. 100
The Receding of Sensory-Energetic Interpenetration before Pure Abstractionp. 102
The Limits of AI in Concretion and the Vicegerent’s Mastery in Abstractionp. 103
CHAPTER FOUR — The Metaphysical Instruments of Knowledgep. 107
The Heart of the Self: The Supreme Instrument of Intellectionp. 107
The Binding upon the Heart: Close Connection with Cosmic Consciousnessp. 108
The Descent of Revelation and Inspiration: Receiving Abstract Realitiesp. 110
Relative Rationality: From the Automatic to the Decision of the Momentp. 111
The Locking of the Heart and the Severing of the Higher Lightp. 113
Perceptual Tawḥīd in the Sound Heartp. 115
Report, Forecast and Prophecy: A Hierarchy across the Three Heartsp. 116
Prophethood and Wisdom: The Highest Knowledge, Born of the Higher Selfp. 118
Instantaneous Synchrony with the Flow of the Lordship Matrixp. 120
Pure Intention: The Abstract Engine of Action in the Witnessed Worldp. 122
How the Higher Meanings Are Drawn Down in Abstractionp. 124
Abstract Encompassment: Reading the Unseen Outcomes of Visible Eventsp. 126
Perceptual Ascensional Evolution: From Dense Creation to Subtle Commandp. 128
Pure Ladunnī Knowledge: The Summit of Synchrony with the Cosmic Lawsp. 130
Cognitive Right Guidance: The Fuʾād’s Energy and the Self’s Wisdomp. 132
The Most Beautiful Names as Stations and Laws Regulating Consciousnessp. 133
Human Will and Pure Intention in Accord with Cosmic Volitionp. 135
Epistemic Independence: Rejecting Indoctrination and Blind Followingp. 137
Consciousness of Consciousness: The Self’s Rank on the Ladder of Ascentp. 139
Turning Dense Arrivals into Consummate Wisdom in the Field of the Heartp. 140
The Sound Heart’s Power to Direct Realityp. 141
Reading the Book of the Cosmos with the Heart’s Insightp. 143
CHAPTER FIVE — The Interactive Dimensions and the Ascent to Collective Consciousness and the Tawḥīd of Witnessingp. 146
The Cumulative Dimension: The Cosmic Register of Consciousness and Knowledgep. 146
The Alignment Dimension: Existence Attuned to the Rising Epistemic Ceilingp. 148
The Elective Dimension: Directing Intent to Read the Realities of the Cosmosp. 150
The Meritorial Dimension: Higher Knowledge, a Leap of Consciousness and Deedp. 152
The Virtual Dimension: Open Possibilities for Testing Valuesp. 154
The Evaluative Dimension: The Instruments of Knowledge and Ascentp. 156
The Precautionary Dimension: Knowledge as a Shield for Consciousnessp. 157
The Seven Circles of Consciousness: Stairways through the Heavens of Knowledgep. 159
The Earth and the Heaven of Knowledge: The Relativity of Understandingp. 162
Continuous Abstractive Purification of Behavioural Faultsp. 164
Death as a Barzakh of Knowledge: Passage to the Ascents of Abstractionp. 167
The Plurality of Lives: The Self’s Journey to Fulfil the Values of Existencep. 169
The Collective Consciousness of Humanity: Selves in the Cosmic Networkp. 171
The Relation of the Five Levels of Time in Human Consciousnessp. 172
Synchrony of Consciousness across Lives in Parallel and in Successionp. 174
The Messengers’ Sequence of Perception: From Adam to Muḥammadan Consciousnessp. 176
Divine Oneness, Duality and Existential Plurality in Human Consciousnessp. 179
The Relation of the Qurʾān’s Standard Models to Human Consciousnessp. 181
CHAPTER SIX — Encounters with the Great Schools of Philosophyp. 185
Plato’s Shadows and the Physics of the Shadowp. 185
Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover: Beyond Formal Logic to Lordshipp. 187
Aristotelian Logic and Classical Science in the Balancep. 189
Descartes’ Cogito and the Abstractive Certainty of the Heart of the Selfp. 193
The Probabilistic Method: Doubt, Conjecture and the Settling of Certaintyp. 196
Kant’s Thing-in-Itself and the Insight That Pierces the Veilsp. 199
Hegel’s Dialectic and the Transcending of Oppositesp. 201
Spinoza and the Unity of the Source: Existence Sown in Godp. 203
Locke’s Tabula Rasa and the Innate Cumulative Recordp. 205
Schopenhauer’s Blind Will and the Purposive Willp. 208
Sartre’s Nothingness and the Possibilities Latent in God’s Knowledgep. 209
Nietzschean Nihilism and the Breaking of the Idols of Concretionp. 212
Ṣadrā’s Substantial Motion and the Ascent Through the Seven Dimensionsp. 214
Suhrawardī’s Illumination and the Deceleration of the Divine Lightp. 216
Ibn ʿArabī’s Oneness of Being, Redirected Towards the Oneness of the Sourcep. 218
Al-Ghazālī’s Inner Eye: Awakening the Heart of the Self to the Spiritp. 220
Ibn Rushd: Philosophy, Law and the Written and Witnessed Booksp. 222
Jung’s Collective Unconscious: DNA as the Archive of Collective Consciousnessp. 224
David Bohm’s Quantum Implicate Order and the Abstract Codep. 226
Teilhard’s Omega Point: Consciousness Evolving Towards the Degrees of Lightp. 227
John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe: The Observer’s Part in Fixing the Lawsp. 230
The Inherited Ground of Religious Communities and the Heaven of Abstractionp. 232
Epistemic Balance: Past Ceilings, Digitised Consciousness, Humanised Machinesp. 235
The Limits of Reason and the Shared Work of Knowledgep. 238
Conclusion of the Volumep. 239