The Ontological status of expanded grace in the the Transcendent Wisdom

Document Type : Scientific Research

Abstract

The nature of sublimated God is “non-conditional as the source of division” from the perspective of Transcendent Philosophy, that is the existence and the existent are restricted to a same referent. In this view, the meaning of the causality, is expressed as manifestation and evolution of something in his nature and it results in the appearance of the Cause’s Infinite perfections. So, multiplicity is nothing but manifestations of God’s nature. For the sake of connecting the diversity and the unity, Mulla Sadra suggested the expanded grace. According to him, the appearance of plurality from the unity is, in principle, the appearance of a divine face whose plurality is His unity. The significance of expanded grace in Transcendent philosophy is equivalent to that of early mystics. In his view, all manifestations of God such as first individuation and second individuation, whether briefly or at length, are in the realm of compassionate breath.

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