Aims and stages for mystical education from the perspective of ayatollah Saadat Parvar

Religious and moral education are, more oe less, well-known issues in the philosophy of education while mystical education has been less attended. This paper is an attempt to discover the aims and stages of mystical education from the perspective of great ayatollah Saadat parvar. The methodology used in this study is descriptive-analytic. He proposed the aims and staegs of such education based on Quran and Tradition, achived through divine law, rather than the statements of mystics. In his view, in the mystical system based on internal and seluiced motion, aims are compatible with educational stages. Therefore, aims of education are presented in two parts; firstly, the ultimate aim as the last stage of seluiced consists of complete obedience expressed through innate manifestation, destruction in God, living on God, mohammadi position, plural position, unity position and the like; the results of this study reveal that the diffrence of these concepts is just conventional. Secondly, mediatory aims as pre-final stage which starts from sin quitting and ends in manifestation of monotheistic names and attributes.