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Gnostic Ontology

Knowledge of existence is one of the significant issues in the domain of philosophy and mysticism, so that it is the pivot of these two disciplines. Both philosophers and mystics maintain that the subject of their discipline is ʹabsolute existenceʹ. This equivocation has caused some mistakes in the domain of mysticism and philosophy. especially the mistake of those who advocate Mulla Sadraʹs philosophy; because when discussing the fundarnentality of existence and its related issues, the Gnosticsʹ and the philosophersʹ opinions are summoned by those advocates in favor of their own viewpoints. whereas there is no common characteristic between Sadraic ontology and Gnostic ontology. The reason is that within the realm of possible existence is Mulla Sadraʹs principality of existence, which means the objective reality is the unmediated instance of the concept of existence, rather than the whatish concept, though as the philosophers have said: ʹEvery contingent thing is composite duality, composed of quiddity and existence. However, what is in the Gnosticsʹ words meant by ʹabsolute existenceʹ is Necessity Existence or Godʹs Existence. In this essay, the author attempts to make clear the differences of these two perspectives.