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#14 - August 2017 - Ikhwan al safa - Spiritual Astrology
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I've put up a new page on my website, Ikhwan al-Safa: Astrology and Magic and I wanted to talk about the Ikhwan al-safa and how this page came about a bit more for Inner Circle members. The quotes on this page come from a translation of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-safa', the Epistles or Encyclopedia of Ikhwan al-Safa, an collection of 52 chapters on esoteric philosophy by the Ikhwan al-safa, "the Brethren of Purity" or "the Brethren of Sincerity" depending on how you translate it. They were an actual group of philosophers and mystics in medieval Basra, located in modern day Iraq.
Now calling them philosophers is immediately a barrier to understanding for moderns. I know a philosophy professor from a small, but elite liberal arts college. This professor specialized in Renaissance and early modern philosophy, in particular, Descartes and Spinoza, but had only barely heard of Agrippa and Ficino and had no idea of their significance or views. The professor told me that occasionally students would ask for ethical, moral or other philosophical advice which upset the professor because they only studied philosophy. I could see that they felt utterly adrift at the idea that philosophy was anything other than a rather bloodless mind game. Of course for moderns philosophy cannot have any spiritual significance because the spiritual does not exist. All previous philosophers and philosophies were merely bumbling in the dark and leading to that most sophisticated and of course true and correct view of reality which is atheistic/materialist/nihilsm.
The Ihkwan al safa were philosophers in the original sense, since philosophy means "love of wisdom." Their epistles present a comprehensive schema of knowledge, explaining reality but founded on the spiritual as the basis of the material. Astrology therefore played a key intermediate role, connecting the Divine World to the Material World. The purpose of the Ihkwan al safa was not to write specialized theses readable only by experts or to attend seminars and discuss theories of no practical significance, like a modern philosophy professor, but to explain the nature of reality for a very practical purpose: spiritual illumination and mystic union with the Divine.

"Will you not choose, oh my brother, to enter the Temple of [Hermes Trisgmegistus], in order to contemplate the heavens of which Plato spoke, spiritual Heavens, not the visible heavens shown by the astronomers?"

Encyclopedia of the Ihkwan al Safa, cited in cited in Henry Corbin, "Sabian Temple and Ismailism" Temple and Contemplation (1986) at 137.


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