learn who He is and who we are, why would He not reach down with His grace as He observes our intention to know Him? We have to give up toying with the idea of change, commit to it as a student undertaking to be the subject, make the transition from the study of objects to the study of subject, ourself.

A tradition on the nature of consciousness or wisdom, refined and passed along to us by Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, offers a platform to build an ascent to the revelations of divine wisdom, mysteries as irrelevant to the molecules and atoms of science as they are to the assumptions of psychology. It is a systematic analysis based on presumptions of faith in God and the determination to make that faith deeper and deeper, based in fact, on the longing and hunger of the soul to know its source, its origin, to merge in a blissful union of one with One. We turn to God as the truth, the truth as an absolute both knowable and attainable through the purification of true prayer. This prayer takes the whole world for a prayer mat, a place where we keep His words in our mouth, His actions in our hands, His truth in our heart. The meaning of Muhaiyaddeen is the reviver of true faith.

In this understanding of wisdom there are seven levels, the first three known and familiar, readily available to a common understanding of the experiences we share with the rest of living creation. We move with much of creation on these first three outer levels, then move to the inner levels which God has consigned exclusively to human beings, bestowing, as the

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