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The Five Presences

Nov 22, 2014 14:00
The October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
Beshara Trust


This is the final seminar of this year's series devoted to an investigation of the meaning of the following central proposition in Ibn 'Arabi's key work, the Kernel of the Kernel:

“Whatever may happen the man of wisdom will not be caught up in any one definite belief because he is wise unto himself.”
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel (tr. Bulent Rauf)

In this seminar we shall be reading the chapter of the "Five Presences" from the Kernel, and also other relevant extracts from Ibn 'Arabi's works on the 'speech' of God in animals and objects.

Each seminar stands individually; the series also has a continuing theme.

With David Hornsby and Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen has long been a student of the Beshara School and has been a main organiser of the Beshara Trust seminars in London for several years. He is a Trustee of the Beshara Trust, and is a mathematics tutor by profession.

David Hornsby has been closely involved with Beshara since the 1970s. He attended the Besharara School as a student and was Chairman of the first three Symposia of the American branch of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society held at the University of Berkeley, California. He is a Fellow of the Ibn 'Arabi Society and has twice been elected as the Fellows' Representative.

Saturday, November 22 from 2–5pm

At: The October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 3AL

Admission free. Refreshments provided. Donations welcome.

Bookings: email london@beshara.org or phone Michael Cohen on 020 8300 7928.


The Beshara Trust is an educational charity whose aims are:

"The advancement of education in the consideration of the basic unity of all religions, in particular by the provision of courses to provide an understanding of the relationship of humankind to the universe, the earth, the environment and society, to Reality and to God."


This is the final seminar of this year's series devoted to an investigation of the meaning of the following central proposition in Ibn 'Arabi's key work, the Kernel of the Kernel:

“Whatever may happen the man of wisdom will not be caught up in any one definite belief because he is wise unto himself.”
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel (tr. Bulent Rauf)

In this seminar we shall be reading the chapter of the "Five Presences" from the Kernel, and also other relevant extracts from Ibn 'Arabi's works on the 'speech' of God in animals and objects.

Each seminar stands individually; the series also has a continuing theme.

With David Hornsby and Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen has long been a student of the Beshara School and has been a main organiser of the Beshara Trust seminars in London for several years. He is a Trustee of the Beshara Trust, and is a mathematics tutor by profession.

David Hornsby has been closely involved with Beshara since the 1970s. He attended the Besharara School as a student and was Chairman of the first three Symposia of the American branch of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society held at the University of Berkeley, California. He is a Fellow of the Ibn 'Arabi Society and has twice been elected as the Fellows' Representative.

Saturday, November 22 from 2–5pm

At: The October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 3AL

Admission free. Refreshments provided. Donations welcome.

Bookings: email london@beshara.org or phone Michael Cohen on 020 8300 7928.


The Beshara Trust is an educational charity whose aims are:

"The advancement of education in the consideration of the basic unity of all religions, in particular by the provision of courses to provide an understanding of the relationship of humankind to the universe, the earth, the environment and society, to Reality and to God."

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