the music of silence - descends to visibility

In Avicenna and the Visionary Recital Henry Corbin writes, "... the symbol is mediator because it is silence, it speaks and does not speak; and, precisely thus, it states what it alone can speak." (260) The Angel is "  'hermeneut of the divine silence' —that is, [the] annunciation and epiphany of the impenetrable and incommunicable divine transcendence." (55)

Jerome Rothenberg has posted his introduction to Murat Nemet-Nejat's forthcoming book The Spiritual Life of Replicants. (excerpt here)  He begins,

"The poem The Spiritual Life of Replicants is infused with Sufi ideas, and this infusion results in a poetry which consists of movements of thought in a visual field. The reader experiences the movements as he or she is ensnared by them reading the poem. The thought patterns are arabesque, circuitous, tangential, reflecting the Sufi sense that reality is not stared at directly; but it can only be touched, glimpsed at reflectively, as fragments, the way, for instance, the reality of the wind can be seen (or heard) in the traces it leaves on the movements of branches. In this way the infinite - the invisible, the music of silence - descends to visibility."  READ THE ENTIRE PIECE