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Among those masters who taught the tenet of three levels of understanding was the brilliant intellectual and mystic thirteenth-century medieval Ibn al-Arabi, of Spain, who was honoured by the title "Teacher of the Age." He described them as (1) ordinary intellectual acquisition of information; (2) temporary emotional conditions, mental glimpses, and mystical experiences of unusual uplift; (3) permanent perception of the Real.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 1 : The Place of Intellect > # 145