known and unknown...

"No more is known of the Cosmos than is known of a shadow, and no more is known of the Real than one knows of the origin of a shadow.

Insofar as He has a shadow, He is known, but insofar as the form of the one casting the shadow is not perceived in the shadow, He is not known.

For this reason,

we say that the Real is known to us in one sense and unknown in another."



Muhyiddin ibn al-'Arabi
_The Seals of Wisdom_
NY: Concord Grove Press, 1983, p. 71