Peace be upon you ILisa,
This is a topic I was just researching a bit on my own and came to similar conclusions. ---It seems as if we've tuned into the same wavelength of thought! I'm anxious to hear more. Can you please elaborate on:
>This energy manifests in human behavior as "Emotions" (energy in motion). The goal in life is to direct the emotions, not be slaves to the emotions. The >Story of solomon illustrates this well. The energy is personified as "jinn", because the energy is "hidden"(jinn) and we are told that jinn are created >from "smokeless fire" (energy).
>The Divine Energy actually manifests in different ways, each of them effecting the way we think.
>There is much to say about this subject, but I will stop there for now.
Sure, The God gave us the SEVEN PAIRS and the Great Announcment/Proclamation/Teaching (regarding the Universe). The Seven Pairs are the & Energies of the Universe, which have good and bad qualities to them depending on how they are manifested. That makes it 7 pairs. These energies correspond to sounds, colors, etc, which is why when we see a rainbow there are 7 colors.
Anyway, these 7 manifestations all come from One Energy (Ruh Ul Qudus). These 7 energies have been associated to planets in Astrology, the correct astrology being Eastern astrology by the way, not Western/Tropical astrology. Each of these energies effect the way we THINK, and therby effect our actions. We have to get in tune with these energies and therefore command them, if not they command us. Its just like "Mother Nature", we can harness the power and make it work for us or we can be subjet to the conditions and get beat up.
In this Story, the energies are personified as "jinn" cause they are hidden energies. The positive side referred to as Malaika (controllers), because it is when we control the energies that we are successful, and the negative ones are shayteen, which effect our thoughs and therby our actions to reject. Remember the verse that says something like "When they are with you they say we believe, but when they are with thier SHAYTEEN(emotions-energy in motion) they say they were just mocking".
Being at PEACE (salaam/Muslim/Islam) allows us to take our consciousness out of this world and therfore put distance between our SELF and our Spirit(Nafs) which is where these "jinn" reside. Most people think that hier thoughts are thier own, however if you were to meditate and get to a state of PEACE, you would see that thoughts come and go by themselves, we rarely control the thoughst that come into our sphere of awareness. I say that to help you understand SOLOMON, whose name is from the same root (S-L-M) for Peace, giving us a hint to this whole message. We must operate from PEACE, not emotion in order to command the hidden energies.
Let me take you back further, these 7 energies are all manifestatons of the 4 basic modalities of the Life Force(Ruh Ul Gudus), which are metaphorized as Fire, Water, Earth(Metal) and Air. Remember , Iblis said it would come at us from 4 directions and that compares to Ibrahim who was shown how God gives life to the dead by placing trained birds on 4 mountains and calling them.
The 7 energies correspond to the folowing modalities
1) Frigid and Dry (Saturn)
2) Hot and Moist (Jupiter)
3) Hot and Dry (Mars)
4) Hot and Dry (Sun)
5) Cold and Moist (Venus)
6) Cool and Dry (Mercury)
7) Cold and Moist (Moon)
Remember, we are told to trust/believe in what descended to us AND those before us. We have to study teh Universe , not just one particular book. Not taking anything away from this fantastic Text, it is truly one of the best, but we are told in that text that we must look at the signs from the horizons to within ourselves.
Well, I will stop here cause I have put a lot out there with what was just said and I dont want to go to fast with this. I am just excited anytime someone asks me to say more
