Mistična iskustva islama i kršćanstva: Rabija 'al-'Adawiyya i Meister Eckhart
Mistical experiences of Islam and Cristianity: Rabija 'al-'Adawiyya and Meister Eckhart

Summary/Abstract: Religion and the religious experience are invariably about the moving „encounter with the Sacred“ where the „sacred reality“ is seen as a force, as a (personal) God, an (impersonal) deity, or some other ultimate reality. Religion is always about the message of salvation, and the path that leads to salvation. Christianity and Islam, religious that are heirs to the Abrahamic tradition, area about life as it is lived, inscribed in people’s hearts, and constitute the reality that determines the daily lives of large numbers of their adherents. The mystical experience, expression of the modes of communication with or attitude towards God in which there is a radical denial of the world and the self, constitutes a major component of religious traditions. It is here that human individuality is dissolved, vanishing into the infinite One of divinity. The mystical experience is that „secret journey“ undertaken within the human soul, a journey towards that which is known as Deus Absconditus. Rabia al-Adawiyya and Meister Eckhart as living participants in the theotical and practical experience of mysticism are mystics who obliterate the self in their entire experience so as to live for the truth. They experience the divine „I“ in the nodal space of their own identity, focusing their own microcosmos of the circle towards the infinity of the very centre of the circle. By reason of inexorable human curiosity, their innermost humanity thirsts for the knowledgeof how to find the abode of the real Word of God within its semantic content and the space of its metaphysical signs, symbols and metaphors.

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