The Shape of Light

Overview

This treatise on the nature and levels of the human soul considers the limitations of human senses and our true or theomorphic essence; the various realms or Centers, including Absolute Mind as well as Ordinary Mind and Divine Mind; the nature of firmaments; and the meaning of pleasure and pain.

Author Biography

The 12th-century Sufi Shihabuddun Yahya al-Suhrawardi was the founder of the Illuminationist or Ishraqi school, a philosophy of light or intellectual intuition influenced by Platonism, Hermeticism, and the teachings of Persian Sufi masters. al-Suhrawardi spent most of his adult life in Persia, where he died after being imprisoned by authorities for his beliefs.