"The Principles of Iblisism"
The Nameless, Spring 2022, Winter 2025
Here follows a brief and undetailed summary of the Principles of Iblisism.
§ The Tenets of Iblisism: These three descriptive claims refer to Iblis in purveying three integral facets of the world, including divinity, the self, and nature.
Iblis before Iblis is a Door to:
I. The Shadow of the Divine
Iblis in Iblis is a Door to:
II. The Shadow of the Self
Iblis after Iblis is a Door to:
III. The Shadow of the Worlds
I. The Shadow of the Divine
Iblis in Iblis is a Door to:
II. The Shadow of the Self
Iblis after Iblis is a Door to:
III. The Shadow of the Worlds
§ The Precepts of Iblisism: Based on the Tafseer-e-Siddiqui, these key prescriptive claims frame choices made by Iblis in the narrative as integral precepts.
I. Separation as Provenance
II. Stringency as a Plenitude
II. Stringency as a Plenitude
III. Seedfulness across Worlds
IV. Strictness over the Terrene
V. Sagacious to the Proximal
VI. Sinewiness in its Offering
VII. Severance from the Placeless