Grace

Muhyi-d-Din ibn 'Arabi in his The Wisdom of the Prophets, the chapter on Seth:

... It is clearly beyond the faculties of the creature as such... to know with Divine Knowledge which embraces the archetypes..., these archetypes being only pure relationships (within) the Essence and without form. (Paraphrased: However, such knowledge is possible for the creature via participation in Divine Knowledge, such participation being a type of divine aid to the creature)...
(p. 111)

(Paraphrased: Spiritual identification with the Divine Subject is realized) 'by virtue of a certain content of the immutable essence of that being, a content he himself will recognize as soon as God makes him to see it.' This is as much as to say that knowledge of oneself flows from the 'Self'.
(p. 112)

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