Dr. Abdoullah Cisse (Dakar, Senegal) law professor, lawyer and coach initiated to enneagram and systemic analysis, which enlighten his view on universal phenomena. He is interested in Life as an Experience of Being in Existence from an African and Sufi perspective. The light of Love appears to him as the origin, the itinerary and the terminus of this experience.

In Sufi spiritual practice, meditation rituals are consecrated to the invocation of the “Beautiful Divine Names”. Among the homogeneous set of 99 Names, two have always fascinated me: Light (An-Nour) and Love (Al-Wadoud). With time and experience, I understood that the Love of Light allows us to see, with the eye of the heart, the Light of Love.

The Light of Love is a true mystery, of which only certain aspects are revealed by those who have experienced fulfilment throughout the evolution of humanity.
There are three dimensions that can be used to illustrate the mystery of the Light of Love:

Quantum - The Light of Love is a quantum, subtle, mysterious light. One cannot perceive it with the normal eye; it can only be apprehended by an open heart. The use of parables is almost unavoidable, as the Koran does in the verse of the Light. All traditions and civilisations of the world have been inspired with a recipe for connecting to this Light of Love. 

Divine matrix - The Light of Love can be seen as:

• “Dark matter”: creation of life from what is called ‘nothingness’, but which refers to emptiness full of all possibilities;
• “black light”: illuminates the invisible and the possible without which the very notion of life cannot be apprehended;
• “black hole”: sucks in what exists and constantly renews it in a mysterious alchemy lying beyond the mind.

Pure Consciousness - The Light of Love is the light of Consciousness allowing the Being to Experience himself in Existence to access fulfilment. Three autonomous interdependent dimensions are respectively Spirit, Soul and Body. 

As observer-witness the Light of Love appears under three complementary realities: form, norm and dogma. 

I.  Form: The universe is the manifested consciousness of the Light of Love

The Light of Love is the source of infinite consciousness even though we see only a reflection of it. Existence is a pale reflection of Being. 

II.  Norm: The Light of Love is the Law of Existence

The cosmic order of the universe, in all that is visible and invisible, past and future, above and below, shadow and light, in all that is the “I”, the “Self” and the “King”.

III.  Dogma: Existence is an experience of the Light of Love

To realise oneself is to become sovereign over this body-universe which symbolises the whole of Existence. Our personality serves as an anchor for our consciousness. Its path allows one to emerge from the darkness to the Light of Love from which it springs, from duality to unity.

The origin, the terminus and the journey are all One, the Light of Love being only the hidden face of the ONE and the flourishing its visible face. When the Light of Love meets the Light reflected by the eyes of Man, then flourishing (fulfilment) is accomplished. Flourishing understood as meaning, as direction and as a feeling of fullness, inseparable from the experience of the Light of Love of which it is the ultimate outcome.   §

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World Goodwill Newsletter 2022 #3 - In Search of a New Culture