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wine. Those of its sectarians who loved this wine have so drunk of it as to lose all knowledge of themselves and to exclaim ‘Praise be to me! Is there any greater than me? ...I am the truth (that is to say, God)! There is no other God than me'! ...”—The Dervishes, page 9.
2. “For this reason, religious man, intoxicated with the cup of Divine Communion, exclaims, 'I am God.' In fact man's attributes are of a divine character--what do I say?--His substance is that even of God." -Ibid. 10.
3. "The soul existed before the body and is confined within the latter as in a cage. Death, therefore, should be the object of the wishes of Soofee." - Ibid. 12.
4. “The soul is a divine emanation incorporated in a human form. It exists in five conditions, viz., it is awake, it dreams, it is plunged in slumber, it fills a state of half death, and finally, even perfectly separated from the body ... After death it must pass through several new existences. Virtuous souls occupy spheres superior to that of this soul and enjoy the fruits of their good works, whilst the guilty ones are condemned to fill conditions inferior to that of humanity. Wicked people who have degraded humanity in this life will live again in the shape of animal existence ... Baktashees believe that the soul after its separation from the human frame may enter into the body of an animal..."- Ibid. 46-47.
5. “The God... who should be adored by all is an unique deity, simple in His essence ...". Ibid 61.
6. “Deen (Religion)... (is) the only true and correct faith, the right path leading to eternal happiness.”—Ibid. 65.
7. “The ... Hadees says, The Faithful do not die; perhaps they become translated from the perishable world to the world of eternal existence." - Ibid. 186.
8. “So far as careful examination and observation show, it is manifest that understanding or knowledge is the part of mujarradat or spiritual things only." ---Al Bayan, page 15.
9. “Paradise and Hell and all the dogmas of positive religion are only so many allegories; the spirit of which is only known to the Soofee.” – The Dervishes," page 11.
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