Transformation of the Self: From Ego to Spirit
摘要
This chapter examines the Ego in the light of SpiritSpirit, drawing on the tripartite division of spiritSpirit—subjective, objective, and Absolute—reinterpreted within Sufi phenomenologyPhenomenologySufi phenomenology. In this framework, the Ego, understood as the unity of consciousness and soul, corresponds to the subjective spiritSpiritsubjective spirit. Recognition of the objective or Absolute SpiritSpiritAbsolute Spirit becomes possible only when consciousness has first understood its relationship with its own soul. According to Sufi phenomenologyPhenomenologySufi phenomenology, every eidetic structureEidoseidetic structure is hypothetically endowed with a spiritSpirit linking it to the divine realm. The objective and Absolute SpiritsSpiritAbsolute Spirit transcend the material world, and human cognition unfolds as an inquiry into the eidetic structureEidoseidetic structure of an object, reaching through its essential coreEidosessential core to apprehend its objective spiritSpiritobjective spirit. Yet the human being can grasp only the subjective dimension of objective truth. Within this perspective, the Absolute SpiritSpiritAbsolute Spirit is identified as the spiritSpirit of the a‘yān-i thābita, manifested in LogosLogos. The affirmation of the subjective idea within the processes of cognition and creativity in the Logos thus marks the point where the subjective and Absolute SpiritsSpiritAbsolute Spirit intersect.