عرفان و كرانه هاي هستي

Gnosticism and Coasts of Existence.

The cognition of the connecting link between the universe and the Creature of existence is among the issues that has been attempted by all thinkers and has made the Gnostic and philosopher to try to decipher this enigma in their own manner. Although there are differences between the world of the philosophers and Gnostics, the permeating truth of "being" and existence has brought the two closer to one another who, after putting difficult bottlenecks of refutation and confirmation behind, have reached a common point through utilizing each otherʹs experiences and resources. In the present article, the author has tried to cast a glimpse at the attitude of the gnostics towards the philosophers by relying on their own statements and also tried to study their common points. At the end, the author has elaborated on various stations of existence or the five-presence and concluded that while in the process of descension, the great divine representative or perfect human being is the medium of creation and perfection of beings, in the arch of ascension too perfect man is the medium of blessing of perfection and return of all beings to the Creature.