| Title | : | The Mathworks Shares Expertise on Model-Based Design for Automotive at SAE World Congress 2008 |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Cross Currents |
| Release | : | 2008-01-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Education, Books, Professional & Technical |
| Size | : | 67224 |
| Every religion crystallizes after the death of its founder into differentiated exoteric and esoteric institutional forms. We tend to call the exoteric "religious" or "outer" practice and the esoteric "spiritual" or "inner" practice, while both strands are organically linked to each other in the original form as practiced by the founder and his immediate disciples and followers, as organically linked as body is to soul for a human to be alive and called human. The exoteric crystallization within Islam became popularly known as the Sharia, Divine Law or Canon, and the esoteric crystallization as the Tariqa, the Way. The Tariqa's focus and praxis became known as tasawwuf, or Sufism in English. Religion's objective as a whole, both exoteric and esoteric practice taken together, is human perfection according to the religion's existential worldview of the nature and purpose of humankind. Religion's given is that we humans are imperfect: either inherently at birth--born with original sin in the Christian worldview, for example--or as in the Islamic worldview born perfect but derailed from the pure state of birth by the urgings of our appointed demons as we grow older. |
