Perfection
“kamāl”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
perfection · completion · gnostic perfection · the furthest perfection · the near perfection · the perfect · the remote perfection · التمام · الكمال · الكمال الاقصى
in the texts
Stromata
Perfection, analyzed as attained differently by different virtues and fully realized only in martyrdom or the consummation of life.
But the gnostic perfection of the man under the law is the taking on of the gospel, that the man under the law may become perfect;
You will find, then, if you wish, from their deeds and writings, the knowledge, the life, the preaching, the righteousness, the purity, the prophecy.
And since the Almighty God Himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as shepherds and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of ministry, unto the building up of the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—we must …
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The proper completion of a thing, established for instruments, doubled into near and remote for man, and used as the criterion by which the candidate happinesses are judged and the last end is identified.
and, along with that, it is not admissible that one instrument should stand in the place of another so as to discharge its purpose and its perfection (kamāl) fully and in truth.
When the sages looked into the end of man and the perfection for the sake of which he exists, they found that he has two perfections, one of them near and the other remote.
So when his soul parts from his body, it passes over to the second existence, which is his last end and his furthest perfection.