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This book uses traditional ontological approaches especially that of Mulla Sadra to interpret
the physical world and its connection with God and Angels in order to give answers to a lot
of basic questions about this world and life. The following are some of such questions this
book answers logically in a simple to understand way:
Is this World a reality or just an illusion?
What is the true reality of Space and Time?
Is Space really limitless and what are the reasons for its limitlessness?
Does Time really exist or does it only appear to pass in our minds?
Is this World created by itself or by a supernatural being called God?
What is the Proof of Gods existence?
Do Angels also exist? And how?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
21
23
37
39
61
76
87
94
107
127
135
137
151
167
181
191
203
219
Conclusion
229
236
242
Index
249
INDEX
A
Actuality, 42
Additional Actualizing Factor
Principle of, 50
Agnosticism, 9
Al-Farabi, 25, 92
Ambiguity in Existence, 79, 194
Ambiguity in Knowledge, 125
Ambiguity in Unity, 79
Analytical Sentences, 15
Angels. See Intellectual Principles
Angular Motion, 71, 95
Animal Forms, 149
Anti-matter, 8, 46, 49, 56, 142
Associationist Psychology, 77
Attribute or Attributive Meaning, 17
B
Big Bang, 8, 9, 228
Bodily Unities, 80
Body, 33
Body-abstracted Unity, 80
C
Conditional Contingents, 144
Contingents, 138
Continuous Creation, 166, 179
Continuous Quantity, 63
Contradictory Categories, 13
Contradictory Complement, 11
Copernicus, 7
Cosmic Motion, 103
in Cycles, 222
Cosmological Proof, 165
Cyclic Closing, 15
D
Darwin, 55, 149
Democritus, 36
Descartes, 8
Differentia, 52
Direction, 62
Divine Act, 222
Divine Transcendence, 196
Divine Will, 204
Division by Dichotomy, 13
DNA, 133, 146
Dream, 113, 184
E
Einsteins Theory of Relativity, 67, 68, 72, 105, 115
Electro-magnetic Force, 177
Electromagnetic Waves, 35, 85, 101, 105, 143
Electroweak Force, 177
Essence or Essential Meaning, 17
Eternity, 179
Evident Truths, 15
Evidently True Concepts, 14
Evidently True Facts, 13
Evidently True Laws, 12
Evil, 214
Evolutionary Theory, 55
Existence, 24
Existence-Limitation Duality, 195
Existential Aspect, 195
as Source of Human Sovereignty, 214
Existential Cause, 144
G
Galileo, 7
Generality, 88
Genus, 52
Goethe, 7
Goodness, 214
Gravitational Force, 177
Guenon, Rene, 7
H
Horizontal Ambiguity in Existence, 194
Horizontal Inability of Human Knowledge, 224
Human Free Will, 169, 210
as Cause of Motion, 169
Compatibility with Divine Omniscience, 213
Compatibility with Divine Will, 210
I
Ibn-e-Arabi, 19, 25
Identity, 90, 92
Imagined Actualities, 125
Imagined Knowledge, 109
Impossibilities, 138
Impossibility of Connectivity of Instants
Principle of, 99
Indefinite Continuity, 15
Indefinite Divisibility
of Space, 64
Indefinite Entities, 111
Indefinite Extension of Space, 226
Indefinite Succession of Time, 226
Individuality, 27, 89
Inertia, 168
Infinite, 141
O
Ontological Proof, 165
Ontological Worldview, 234
R
Real Existence, 25
as Source of Last Differential Form, 59
as Source of Motions, 100
as Source of Physical Attributes, 74
Primacy of, 128
Reflexive Actions, 169
Relativism, 9
Russell, Bertrand, 19, 26, 132, 133
P
Pantheism, 193
Paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, 65, 98
Parmanades, 25
Partially Physical Partially Metaphysical Things, 33
Partially Sovereign Being, 210
Perpetuity, 179
Phenomenological Metaphysics, 77
Phenomenon, 129
Physical Attributes, 62
as Comparative Relation, 73
Motion in, 71
Physical Event, 31
Physical Thing, 31, 33
as a Continuous Entity, 35
Physical World, 32
as a Gigantic Physical Thing, 62
Physico-theological Proof, 165
Plurality Paradoxes, 65
Possibilities. See Contingents
Post-multiplicity Generality, 156
Potentiality, 42
Pre-multiplicity Generality, 155
Preparatory Causes, 145
Preparatory Dependency, 145
Primary Time, 72, 221
Prime Matter, 48
Principle of Essentiality, 18
Q
Quality, 61
Quantitative Motion, 95
Quantity, 62
Quiddity, 54
as Appearance, 128
S
Saint Thomas Aquinas, 19
Sensed Actualities, 125
Sensed Evidently True Facts, 14
Sensed Knowledge, 109
Shape Forms, 44
Singularity, 228
Skepticism, 10
Sleep, 184
Soul. See Psyche
Sovereignty. See Free Will
Space, 62
Relativity of, 67
Space-object, 35
as a Physical Thing, 66
as Part of Physical Things, 35
Spatial Motion, 95
Species, 53
Steiner, Rudolf, 7
Strong Nuclear Force., 177
Subjugation, 205
Substance, 77
Sufism, 6
Superstring, 40, 56
Synthetic Sentences, 15
T
Taoism, 6, 19
Theodicy, 214
Theory of Natural Selection, 55
Time, 63, 179
Time Cycles, 221
Time of Occurrence, 63
Traditional Thoughts, 5
Trans-substantial Motion, 71, 95
differences with Attributive Motions, 101
U
Unconditional Contingents, 144
Z
Zeno of Elea, 65, 98