Journeying through the ontological foundations of the founding sage Agha Ali Modarres مقاله

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[The First Station: Regarding what all sciences require in terms of general meanings] [The First Witness: Regarding Existence] [The First Illumination: Regarding its realization] [1] His saying, may his soul be sanctified: "Existence is the most deserving of things of realization (1) because other than it becomes realized through it" (2) I say: There is no doubt that everything which is accidental or through another is a restrictive aspect that must end in what is essential and without mediation, and in a causal aspect; otherwise, it would lead to circularity or infinite regress. What occurs in the mind is the mental reality of existence, not its concept; thus, it is also an external matter, and therefore its effects follow from it, for its essential aspect is the aspect of its being knowledge, the knowability of things through it, the attribution of universality to the essence within it, and so on. [The Fifth Illumination] [7] His saying—may his light be increased—"the cause of the connection between them" (4) The necessary connection (talaazum) between two things occurs only when one is a cause and the other is an effect, or when each of them is connected to the other in a non-circular manner, meaning they are both effects of a cause that establishes the connection between them; otherwise, there is no essential intellectual connection, but rather a coincidence according to chance, because in that case, the essence of each is isolated from the other, and there is nothing between them ______________________________ 1 ـ The first way is attributed to the Sufis and is the unity of existence and the existent, the second way is attributed to the Peripatetics and is the multiplicity of existence and the existent, and the third way is unity in the very midst of multiplicity, i.