This paper explores the dialogue between physics, language, and metaphysics through a non-dual lens, starting from Maimonides'
Guide of the Perplexed as a historically situated intervention rather than a timeless metaphysical system. I argue that the Guide operates at the threshold between the "Work of Creation" (physics) and the "Work of the Chariot" (metaphysics), aiming to discipline intuition and imagination without collapsing epistemic distinctions. Central to this reading is the Judeo-Arabic admonition later translated by Samuel Ibn Tibbon, whose Hebrew rendering—shown by Sadik (2013) to alter the original intent—shifted a warning against unfounded intuition into a prohibition of speculative interpretation. This shift shaped medieval and modern attitudes toward imagination and intuition, including Kabbalistic traditions and even Gershom Scholem's figurative accounts of the divine, as discussed by Chayes (2022).
Reconsidering intuition as a disciplined dimension of the imaginary rather than an epistemic shortcut, the paper reopens the question of divine figurability. I suggest that Maimonides anticipates a non-dual epistemology in which unity is expressed through controlled differentiation, linguistic restraint, and conceptual mediation. This framework resonates with contemporary physics and mathematics—especially non-Euclidean and multidimensional geometries—where visualization both enables and constrains knowledge, and figures function as immanent expressions rather than representational copies. Finally, the paper engages Derrida's deconstruction of the "origin of geometry," proposing that metaphysics, like geometry, unfolds through historically mediated practices of inscription and imagination. In this sense, the Guide offers a premodern model for integrating scientific and humanistic inquiry without reducing unity to multiplicity, or vice versa.