In Mandaean cosmology, Mshunia Kushta (Classical Mandaic: ࡌࡔࡅࡍࡉࡀ ࡊࡅࡔࡈࡀ, romanized: Mšunia Kušṭa, lit. 'realm of truth') is a part of the World of Light considered to be the dwelling place of heavenly or ideal counterparts (dmuta).[1] It is similar to Plato's concept of the hyperuranion (realm of Forms),[2][3] which can be roughly described as a place in heaven where all ideas of real things are collected together.[4]
Mshunia Kushta is considered to be the shkina (dwelling) of Anush Uthra.[5]
See also
edit- Hyperuranion in Platonism
- Theory of forms in Platonism
- Abstract and concrete
- Adam Kasia
References
edit- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- ^ Nasoraia, Brikha H.S. (2021). The Mandaean gnostic religion: worship practice and deep thought. New Delhi: Sterling. ISBN 978-81-950824-1-4. OCLC 1272858968.
- ^ Drower, E. S. (1960). The Secret Adam: The Study of Nasoraean Gnosis (PDF). London: Oxford University Press. p. 41.
- ^ Solomonick, Abraham (2017). From Semiotics towards Philosophical Metaphysics. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 9781443886451.
- ^ Drower, E. S. (1960). The Secret Adam: The Study of Nasoraean Gnosis (PDF). London: Oxford University Press.
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