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The White Pearl
A translation and annotation of Ibn al-Arabi’s al-Durrat al-Bayda.
About the work
This treatise explores names and symbolic descriptions associated with the Single Monad, including the White Pearl, and their relation to time, creation and the divine foreknowledge of the world. It belongs beside the historical and philosophical foundations of the series.
Read it alongside Eternity for the distinction between temporal succession and ontological dependence. The Volume I reading guide supplies a bridge to the questions developed in the Single Monad programme.
Earlier project introduction
This introduction records the project as presented on the earlier website. Any expected publication dates belong to that historical announcement; consult the linked edition or project page for its publication details.
This is a translation of Ibn al-Arabi's book of ad-Durrat-ul-Bayda. We quoted this book many times in the Single Monad of the Cosmos book series, and here we present a full translation with extensive annotation. In this short book, Ibn al-Arabi comments on the various names and descriptions of the Single Monad, relating all that to the concept of time and pre-existence of the World in the divine fore-knowledge, before it is brought into actual existence in the outward corporeal and incorporeal dimensions, via the White Pearl, one of the important symbolic names of
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Expected in July 2019.
The Duality of Time Theory, that results from the Single Monad Model, explains how multiplicity is dynamically emerging from absolute Oneness, and vice versa, at every instance of time! This theory leads to the Ultimate Symmetry of Space and its instantaneous breaking into the physical and psychical creations, with two hyperbolically orthogonal arrows of time.