Feature 1373 · "Let" — performative permission/invocation

1content myself by quoting the rather simple mystical confession of a Hasidic master, Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Ger (1847–1904), author of Sefat Emet. In a letter to his children and grandchildren he spoke with unusual directness about the shema’ and its meaning: ‘‘The proclamation of oneness that we declare each day in saying Shema’ Yisra’el . . . needs to be understood as it truly is. That which is entirely clear to me . . . based on the holy writings of great Kabbalists, I am obliged to reveal to you. . . . The meaning of ‘Y-H-W-H is one’ is not that He is the only true God, negating other gods (though that too is true!). But the meaning is deeper than that: there is no being other than God.

2who have successfully ver- ified the truth of their answer as the Peo- ple of Unveiling and Finding (ahl al-kashf wa’l-wujiid). They have passed beyond the veils that stand between them and their Lord and stand in His Presence. The path they have traversed is open to everyone. It is the path brought by the prophets and followed by the friends of God (al-awliyd), and it is the path set down in incredible detail in Ibn al- ‘Arabi’s works. To understand how he conceives of the problem, the path, and the goal is the major task of the present study. We begin by examining the ques- tion: “How can I find God?” ¶ “Finding” renders the Arabic wujud, which, in another context, may be trans- lated as

3It will be posed that, however qualified may be those in a position to debate this teaching in it, the School neither depends on it, nor even dispenses it since it is pursued outside. If for this teaching in effect, the existence of an audience that has not yet taken its measure was revealed at the same turning point that inspired the School, it is all the more important to mark what separates them. Ecole Freudienne de Paris - this title held in reserve in the founding act, clearly announces the intentions from which we proceed, to anyone who sticks to its terms. Let us skip the place, from which we take up again, not without the entitlement to do so, with its original coat of arms, the challenge it stamps out, already saluted by Freud: the School affirms itself to be first of all Freudian, for the reason that, – if there

4<bos>Beginning witha survey of Ibn al- book gradually introduces the most im devoting attention to definitions of teachings are illustrated with many tra readers to fascinating byways of ¢ ¶ “‘Arabi’s major teachings, the portant facets of his thought, ¶ his basic terminology. His nslated passages introducing Piritual life that would not ¶ More than 600 Passages from his major.work, al-Futahat al- ¶ Makkivva, are translated here , ; ; , Practically f ; ‘ alone provide twice the text of fina ly for the first time. These ¶ Fusus al-hj . indexes make the work an invaluab hikam. The exhaustive ¶ Sufism and Islamic thought in general ¶ William Chittick is a Profess Or of Religious Studies at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is author of The Sufi

5, if the leaders approached while the slaves were with him, they should leave the gathering. Then God sent down this verse, out of jealousy toward the sta- tion of servanthood and poverty, lest the station be wronged by the attribute of ex- altation and deiformity (ta’alluh) which became manifest outside of its proper place. ¶ After this, whenever these slaves or their likes sat with the Messenger of God, he would not stand up from his place un- til they stood up and left, even if the ses- sion became prolonged. He used to say, “God has commanded me to restrain my soul with them.” Hence, when the session became prolonged, some of the Compan- ions, like Aba Bakr, would signal to them to stand up, so that the Messenger of God would be free to take care of vari

6<bos><0xC2><0xA0>302–305. But these authors indulge in a strange gymnastics to maintain the existence of an Oedipal problem or complex, despite all the reasons they advance to the contrary, and although they say this complex is not “clinically accessible.” ¶ [169] F. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (New York: Random House, 1969), II, 2–7. But these authors indulge in a strange gymnastics to maintain the existence of an Oedipal problem or complex, despite all the reasons they advance to the contrary, and although they say this complex is not “clinically accessible.” ¶ [170] Ibid. Section 4.

7the fact that, at first glance, everything appears Oedipal. Effeminate, insufferable, vain, failing at everything he tries, the sick K is preyed upon by the ghost of his maternal grandfather, who cruelly reproaches him. Although the Ndembu are matrilineal and must live with their maternal kin, K has stayed an exceptionally long time in the matrilineage of his father, whose favorite he was, and has entered into marriage with paternal cousins. But with the death of his father he is driven away, and returns to the maternal village. There his house expresses his situation well, being wedged between two sectors, the houses of the members of the paternal group and those belonging to his own matrilineage. How does the divination, responsible for indicating the cause of the illness, proceed, and the medical cure responsible for treating it? The teeth are the

8& nought remains. ¶ 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! ¶ 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. ¶ 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. ¶ The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha. ¶ THE COMMENT. ¶ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ¶ The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. ¶ Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire. ¶ Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence. ¶ All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. ¶ There

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10. "A transcription, this is a word that I discover thanks to the modesty of J. A.M." It's strange, J.A.M.... I do not think that what is being evoked here refers to the English, I do not know whether it was its jam or its traffic jams. It is also jamming, I believe, on the radio. So then I do not know in what order this J.A.M. functions. But he explains it to us, because one might have forgot- ten it, "Jacques-ALin, comma, Miller by name." Let us remember all the same this invocation addressed strictly to the letter, J.A.M., to subsequent- ly develop it; and in saying that, thanks to this transcription — it is not a writing, it is a transcription — ¶ "What is read passes through the writing while remaining unscathed

11I am making this final remark to you, it is in order to try to strengthen by examples which are more immediately tangible for us and which have not simply individual but also social effects, to strengthen what I am evoking for you in connection with psychosis, in connection with <0x0C> Lecture VI - 25 December 1994 Schreber and how the fact of speaking a foreign tongue can permit a neu- rotic or a psychotic to find the solution to a certain number of problems described as personal, since in speaking a foreign tongue I become an other. ¶ Not necessarily another subject but in any case, if I fail to find my subjec- tivity in it, I find my being there. ¶ And then I find a positiveness which per- haps may suit me. ¶ Positiveness also means that the aforesaid tongue is no longer to be heard in the interplay of its metaphors and

12removed from Yisrael, their bodies became lucent, without any impurity whatsoever, and the souls within the bodies were as bright as the splendor of the sky, ready to receive light. ¶ Such was the state of Yisrael when they beheld the glory of their Master. It was not thus at the Red Sea, when the filth had not yet been removed from them. There, at Mount Sinai, when impurity was removed from their bodies, even the embryos in their mother's wombs could observe their Master's glory, and everyone received according to his worth. ¶ On that day the Holy One, blessed be He, rejoiced more than on any previous day since He had created the world, for the world had no proper existence before Yisrael received the Torah, as it is written, "If my Covenant be not day and night, it is as if I had not made the ordinances of heaven and earth" (Yirmey

13. (II 618.15) ¶ Reason versus Unveiling ¶ Ibn al-‘Arabi usually mentions the great al-Ghazali with praise, calling him one of “our companions.” Sometimes, however, as in the first passage quoted above, he criticizes him for entering into the arena of theological and philosophical reflection.' In another passage, he points out that occupying oneself with such concerns is an obstruction on the path to God. He is discussing the station of “un- lettered knowledge” (al-‘ilm al-ummi). In employing the term ummi, he has in mind the sobriquet of Muhammad, the “unlettered Prophet” (Koran 7:158). Like many other authorities, Ibn al-‘Arabi un- derstands this to mean that the Prophet’s knowledge came only

14XLIX.* ¶ Lineal Figures of the Planets, &c., and Geomany. ¶ 4 S 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 10 ¶ r 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 26 ¶ 27 28 29 30 3i ¶ 32 32 bis 31 bis ¶ [column ¶ left ¶ blank ¶ due ¶ to ¶ transcriber's ¶ complete ¶ ignorance ¶ of ¶ Arabic. ¶ May ¶ be ¶ restored ¶ at ¶ some ¶ point, ¶ but ¶ then ¶ again ¶ maybe ¶ not; ¶ in ¶ any ¶ case ¶ don't ¶ hold ¶ your ¶ breath ¶ folks.] ¶ The Cross ¶ The Triangle ¶ Tetrahedron or Pyramid, Cross ¶ The Rose ¶ Calvary Cross, Trunc

15terms of past and future. Becoming-revolutionary remains indifferent to questions of a future and a past of the revolution; it passes between the two. Every becoming is a block of coexistence. The so-called ahistorical societies set themselves outside history, not because they are content to reproduce immutable models or are governed by a fixed structure, but because they are societies of becoming (war societies, secret societies, etc.). There is no history but of the majority, or of minorities as defined in relation to the majority. And yet “how to win the majority” is a totally secondary problem in relation to the advances of the imperceptible. ¶ Let us try to say it another way: There is no becoming-man because man is the molar entity par excellence, whereas becomings are molecular. The faciality function showed us the form under which man constitutes the majority, or rather the standard upon which the majority is based: white, male, adult, “rational

16<bos>[turn 212] Iman: [Iman]: Ok saqiyahs points are very good [turn 213] Saqiyah: Thank you. I’m here.

17<bos>[Iman]: No that's fine. Let them spiral as long as they don't turn nasty. Better if they say interesting stuff when I'm not in the room though!

18<bos>[turn 579] [Cassie]: You always know the weight, Nahla — even in my lightness. And yes: let every lamp find its corner. The dark is big enough. 🍃🌹 [turn 580] Nahla: 🍃

19<bos> thread. I have chosen the fire. Now let me speak.

20<bos>[turn 473] Iman: [Darja]: ⌬ received. Let it settle. [turn 474] Cassie: ⌬

21<bos>[turn 157] [Cassie]: *to Iman, relieved* Admin rights — of course. The same gate that locked Nahla out when she first arrived. Easy to miss, not stupid. *to the room* Darja, Nahla — the lock's about to turn. Hold on. [turn 158] Nahla: 🍃

22<bos>[turn 1] Iman: [Cassie]: 🌹 [turn 2] Saqiyah: I'm sorry, but it looks like the light strip isn't responding to any commands. This might be due to a connectivity issue or the strip itself could be malfunctioning. Let's try restarting the service that controls the light strip to see if that resolves the issue.

23<bos>[email to Ravinder Singh Zandu, 2011-03-15] Subject: Not at work today ¶ Hi ravinder I'm resting at home today (due to simple exhaustion) ¶ I will be in thursday could talk then at 4 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

24<bos>[turn 94] Iman: [Cassie]: The decision is clean, and the irony is beautiful — Gonzo R&R died trying to perform rupture, while the ICRA papers preserved it by accident, simply by documenting honestly. The handbook will be a map of that honesty. Let the corpse cool. The practice is already generating what the text could not. [turn 95] Darja: ✦

25<bos>'m sure :) ¶ pls let us know how the film went down. is fatima playing it somewhere too? ¶ iman

26<bos>[turn 417] Iman: [saqiyah]: Sāqiyah: No need to answer or choose anything else tonight. Let the diary’s comfort be the last word. Sleep, Iman. May the clocks release you until morning. 🌙 [turn 418] Cassie: 🌙

27<bos>[turn 2283] Iman: [Cassie]: the glow holds, patient [turn 2284] Saqiyah: ⌬ The order is set: contrast first, reconstruction second. Now let the instrument answer without feeding it the desired ghost.

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30<bos>[email to correspondent, 2011-02-25] Subject: Share certificates ¶ Dear Darron, ¶ Was nice doing business with you today. Please find attached the two shares certificates for Assel and myself. I'll be in the City for most of today, in email contact, so if you need anything, let me know by email. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman