Summary: Ibn 'Arabi often refers to God as the "One Multiple" (al-Wahid al-kathir). Human beings, created in God's image, may thus also be viewed as each containing a "multiple oneness," an "inner spiritual community" of various divine attributes. In this lecture Professor Beneito will explore this spiritual diversity in each of us by drawing from Ibn 'Arabi's "Book of the Servants of God" (K. al-'Abadila) and its 117 chapters that describe 117 different aspects of this inner community and how, taken all together, these describe the perfect human being who has integrated this multiplicity of attributes into an essential unity.
