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Not only is this* a mystical (and symbolic) experience, it is also an experience of being overwhelmingly in love – which can lead to a curious kind of self-abnegation, an inability to exercise the will or promote oneself or one’s interests. This loss of self, generally speaking, is the kind of approach least likely to succeed with the sophisticated modern woman – or perhaps the sophisticated modern publisher. But it suggests that the Islamic form is here more significant than the Western.

*[See last previous entry]

**{cf [[Redbook9:64-67][19910410:1202]{The Path (Tariqah)}[10th April 1991],] 64,

[[Redbook9:89][19910413:1056e]{Sufis}[13th April 1991],] 89,

& PTO [(presumably) [Redbook9:106][19910414:1104t]{[Islamic Art –] The Word (2) [continued (10)] – Philosophy & Mysticism}[14th April 1991]]}

***{mystical, eg Sufi}

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