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I would like begin this talk by stressing the orthodoxy was strictly observed and prescribed by Eckhart, Shankara and Ibn Arabi. This needs be stressed at the outset since so many of their pronouncements go beyond the boundaries of religion narrowly-conceived, and thus have been taken by some as pretexts for abandoning formal religion in the name of a supra-religious mystical essence. My...