Key concepts
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Lāhūt — pure divinity
Jabarūt — omnipotence
Malakūt — the angelic world
Mithāl — the imaginal
Mulk / Nāsūt — the visible
العَوَالِم
The tiered worlds
Chapter 3 · al-ʿawālim
The real is not flat — it has storeys.
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