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“The fleshly soul and the Devil both have (ever) been one person (essentially); (but) they have manifested themselves in two forms.…
You have such an enemy as this in your inward part: he is the preventer of the intellect, and the adversary of the spirit and of religion.”

—Rumi


“Man’s state on earth as an individual cut off from his spiritual prototype is due to the fall of Adam. The fall in turn is explained by Rumi as stemming from God’s casting Iblis (Satan) out of Heaven.”


Adam and Eve
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