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to think that every Muslim should at least once in his life visit Mecca, where he should
perform a number of ceremonies, including walking around the Kaaba seven times as a
symbol of the divine order and subordination to the single centre.
But if we compare all this information about the Kaaba relic with the Knowledge, it
turns out that it’s not about the external worship. After all, the energy projection of a
spiritually developed person in the seventh dimension looks like a cube set on one of its
vertices! A cube with one of its vertices marked is a symbolical way to pass down the
spiritual knowledge. And seven circles symbolise the cognition of the seven
dimensions!
Rigden: Absolutely. Often, the rites of various religions include performing some
external action for seven times as a symbol of attaining the seventh dimension during
lifetime, a special spiritual procession (spiritual development of man during his life) on
the way to God. For example, as you correctly noted, in Islam it is walking around the
Kaaba for seven times and also a number of religious rites associated with the number
seven. This is based on the Muslim beliefs that the throne of Allah is located in paradise
on top of the seventh heaven, where there is “the Lote-tree of the limit” (Sidrat al-
Muntaha). There is an esoteric branch of Islam – Sufism, which had a huge impact on
the religious dogmas, philosophy, literature, ethics and poetry of the Muslims of the
East.
By the way, the famous scientist and poet Omar Khayy m also wrote in the style of the
Sufi rubaiyat. So, in Sufism the spiritual cognition, the way to God is the seven spiritual
steps on the path towards self-perfection (tariqa; from the Arabic “tariqah” (the word is
given in the English transcription) – a “path”; a “way to the truth”). They are called
maqam (when translated from Arabic, it means a “place”, “position”, “station”) – a
spiritual, stable state which a Sufi reaches on each stage; a “station” of tariqa. The way
to God is described as a symbolical crossing of the so-called “Seven valleys”.
Anastasia: Yes, those symbolical “seven valleys” in Sufism have quite poetic names.
The first one is the Valley of Search, where a person lets go of all his earthly wishes. In
the second one – the Valley of Love – he tries to find God as the only Beloved one. In
the third one – the Valley of Intuitive knowledge – a Sufi only starts to know God,
perceive the light of the Truth. In the fourth one – the Valley of Detachment – the seeker
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