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This is a book on love, integrating the human aspects of it with its divine essence. Spiritual liberty is a prerequisite for this integration. It refers to a state where one is no longer dependent on outer circumstances and on the fancies of one's mind. Therefore, it is also a book on the spiritual path which leads man from imperfection to perfection, from self-consciousness to ever-flowing sympathy. It is the path of the unfoldment of the soul. The soul is the lightning spark of the Divine Sun within ourselves. It is the most original part of our being, which will be the only part lasting forever, ultimately unified in its divine origin. Thus it is a book on birth and death, on life here and in the hereafter, on reincarnation and spiritism. The part on Spiritual Liberty is a wonderfully concise presentation of the Sufi way, with a stress on enlightened philosophy, which in Pearls is supplemented by the psychological side of it, all permeated by the inspired mysticism of the Murshid. Aqibat and The Phenomenon cover the item of death and life hereafter in chapters like Death; The Day of Judgement; Heaven and Hell; Manifestation; The World of the Angels; Heredity and Reincarnation. Besides, it touches spiritism in obsession, haunted places, and spiritualism. Metaphysics supplements this part of Hazrat Inayat Khan's philosophy by offering views on the relationship with our life on earth, and the soul's relation to one's body and mind.

 All these items are treated from both the philosophical and psychological points of view, and integrated by the mystical perspective.