Some of the letters...
represent creatures that appear on the descending arc of existence, the movement from the invisible realms into the semi-visible realm of receptivity in which the visible cosmos is born.
Other letters...
represent creatures that appear on the ascending arc of existence, which begins in visibility and then returns to the invisible realms of spirit and consciousness from which it arose.
the twenty-seventh letter...
represents human beings.
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And the twenty-eighth...
designates the stations and stages of perfection...
achieved by those human beings who enter into the presence of God.
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The twenty-sixth letter...
represents the jinn.
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And the twenty-fifth...
the angels...
inasmuch as these are creatures that are present in the invisible realms of the returning arc.
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Letters 23 through 25...
designate the visible creatures.
That is, minerals, plants, and animals.
Notice that modern cosmology deals almost exclusively with the twenty-third letter of the alphabet, the other twenty-seven letters lying outside the realm of its competence.
This is why it hardly deserves the name 'cosmology'.
~bron~
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