52idea that some principle of difference in the nature of the ultimate existence must be postulated in order to account for empirical diversity, underwent further modifications; until in the Hurufi sect (an offshoot of the Ismailia), in the 14th Century, it touched contemporary Sufiism on the one hand, and Christian Trinity on the other. The "Be" maintained the Hurufis, is the eternal word of God, which, itself uncreated, leads to further creation - the word externalised. "But for the 'word' the recognition of the essence of Divinity would have been impossible; since Divinity is beyond the reach of sense perception" (1). The 'word', therefore, became flesh in the womb of Mary (2) in order to manifest the Father. The whole Universe is the manifestation of God's 'word', in which He is immanent (3). Every sound in the Universe is within God, every atom is singing the song of eternity (4); all is life. Those who want to discover the ultimate reality of things, let them seek "the named" through the Name (5), which at once conceals and reveals its subject.
Patronised by the early Caliphs of the House of `Abbas, Rationalism continued to flourish in the intellectual centres of the Islamic world; until, in the first half of the 9th Century, it met the powerful
2.Ibid. fol, 280a.
3 Ibid. fol. 366b.
4 Ibid. fol. 155b.
5 Ibid. fol. 382a.