Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Fusus Al-Hikam: The Seals of Wisdom

"We shall return to the Divine Wisdom. And we say, know it like this, that certainly all orders (like Life, Knowledge, Power,) have no being in their essence ('ayn) (yet) it is certain they are in the mental capacity, intelligible and known. And that it is interior does not diminish it from essential existence and it has determination and effect in everything which is its essential existence. Rather it is the same as itself and no other than itself, I mean the essences of essential existents, and they do not diminish in themselves by being intellectually immanenced as they are interior from the point of view that they are intelligible. And the support of all essential existents in this is the total orders which are not possible to remove from the intellect, and their existence in the Essence ('ayn) is not possible by such an existence through which they could be removed from being intelligible, and it is the same thing whether this existent be temporal or non-temporal."----------Ibn Arabi was Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher, whose works have grown to be very influential beyond the Arab and Muslim world. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic while over 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. He is renowned among practitioners of Sufism by the names al-Shaykh al-Akbar "the Greatest Shaykh"