The Structure of the Book

In accordance with the creative quadratic design of the cosmos and its quint-essence, this book is divided into an extended introduction and four chapters, each of them is dedicated for one of the four hierarchical levels of symmetry: normal, super, hyper and ultimate, which describe the physical, psychical, spiritual and divine realms, respectively. With each of these four hierarchical levels, a new fundamental divine Attribute is implement: willing, knowing, living and ability, respectively, although all these Attributes are inherently, but relatively, manifested in the human being who is created on the divine Image. So we shall also discuss these four fundamental attributes in their respective chapters.

In the introduction, we shall talk specifically about the Principle of Love, as the primary divine motive behind creating the World, thus forming the most fundamental cause of physical as well as metaphysical motion or activity, because of the breaking of the original harmony and the subsequent desire for union, inherent in all corporeal and incorporeal entities, whether animate or inanimate beings. This Principle of Love leads to the known principle of least time, or stationary action, which constitutes the starting assumption in formulating all classical and modern physics theories, including Relativity and Quantum Field Theory. In this introduction, we will also briefly describe ancient cosmology and cosmogony; concentrating more on the Islamic view of creation since it forms the foundations of Ibn al-Arabi s cosmology from which the Single Monad Model and the Duality of Time Theory have been developed in the previous two volumes, which then lead to this concept of Ultimate Symmetry.

The first chapter introduces the concept of symmetry, and how it operates on the various levels of nature, starting from the realm of fundamental elementary particles, up into the microscopic structures of atoms, molecules, and crystals, and then up to all the various macroscopic structures they may form on all levels of creation; ranging from geology (such as rocks and mountains), biology (including botanic and animal kingdoms) and astronomy (from planets to galaxies and larger clusters). This normal symmetry is evident on all these diverse levels of creations, and that is simply due to the fundamentalfractalnature of space-time that is producing all these various structures. As it is well known, fractals are characterized by all kinds of rotational and translational self-similarities, and because space-time itself is fractal, a whole spectrum of overlapping symmetries is actively operating on all levels of creation, both in their physical configuration and other non-figurative processes.

For example, the number and types of elementary particles, according to the Standard Model, are fundamentally related to the number and types of teeth! This is simply because both of these, apparently unrelated systems, are rooted in the four layers of space-time dimensions: , ,  and , that are also related of the four elemental states in nature: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. These four classical elements permeate all physical and metaphysical structures, and they are themselves deliberated by the four divine attributes that are necessary and sufficient for omnipotent God: Living, Knowing, Will and Ability. Hence, these four origins are then multiplied by the seven heavens whose motion is producing the seven days of the week, where the first six of them are dynamically forming the six directions of space, that then also produce the six types of fermions that form matter particles, while the seventh day is the outward time which produces the four types of bosons that are the particles of energy, or interaction mediators. All these kinds of symmetries in the physical and metaphysical worlds are rooted in this array of numbers: , which produce the original twenty-eight days of the month, but also implicit in all that the original four divine attributes, which can increase this number up to thirty-two: . Hence, the number and types of elementary particles, and that of teeth (of humans, in particular) are not accidental at all, and they are also profoundly related to the number and types of letters in the alphabet!

Therefore, in Chapter IV, we shall explain how these four fundamental divine Attributes form the ultimate symmetry, that emerges from the absolute Oneness of God, through the hierarchy of other divine Names and Attributes. Before that, in Chapter III, we shall also explain how these same four fundamental divine Attributes descended to form the spiritual world that is most perfectly manifested in the Perfect Human, and to various relative extents in angels, jinn, humans, animals, plants and inanimate beings. All of these conclusive six types of creation have their own spiritual nature that is governed by hyper symmetry, just as their physical complexions and other configurations are governed by normal and super symmetries.

Nevertheless, what is most important and more relevant to mathematicians, physicists and other scientists, at this critical juncture in the history of scientific research, is the subject of super symmetry, which is necessary to explain quantum gravity. This will be tackled in Chapter II, where we shall explain how this missing symmetry can be realized only with the psychical world that complements our physical existence, and each is evolving in its own arrow of time, as we have already introduced in Volume II of this series. With these two orthogonal arrows of time, there is no need to introduce any super space, which requires anti-commuting super numbers, because the fermions in our physical world behave as bosons in the psychical domain, and vice versa.

However, because of the novelty of these ideas, and since this is the first attempt to treat these esoteric subjects under the umbrella of physics and cosmology, the discussion in these two chapters will be limited to the general description of their hierarchical structures according to Ibn al-Arabi. We will also explain how the corresponding level of symmetry could be generated from the same complex-time geometry that is forming our normal space-time container of the physical world. These novel and extremely essential subjects may be the subject of a future work.