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I have passed away...


"For thirty years, God Most High was my mirror.

Now I
am my own mirror, and that which I was I am no more,

for "I" and "God" represents polytheism, a denial of
His Unity.

Since I am no more, God Most High is His
own mirror.

Behold, I now say that God is the mirror
of myself,

for with my tongue He speaks and I have
passed away."

...............

Bayazid al-Bistami
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998 (1971), p.830

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