Swedenborg and Esoteric IslamThis volume makes two essays by Henry Corbin, the eminent French scholar of Islam, available in English for the first time. Although his primary interest was the esoteric tradition of Islam, Corbin was also a lifelong student of the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg. The first essay, "Mundus Imaginalis, or The Imaginary and the Imaginal," clarifies Corbin's use of the term he coined, mundus imaginalis, or "the imaginal world." This important concept appears in both Swedenborgian and esoteric Islamic spirituality. The second piece, "Comparative Spiritual Hermeneutics," compares the revelation of the internal sense of the sacred boks of two distinct religions, Christianity and Islam. |
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... theosophy of Shi'ism , namely , the " eternal prophetic Reality " ( Haqiqat moḥammadiya ) that is designated as “ Muḥammadan Logos ” or " Muḥammadan Light " and is composed of fourteen entities of light : the Prophet , his daughter ...
... theosophy , is the Mobdi , the Principle , Super - Being ) . He cannot be manifested to man and act within or upon man except by means of the human Essence , that is , by an existere divinum in the essential human Form . The figure of ...
... theosophy , 50 historical periods distinguished by , 62 Swedenborgian topography , 44 Swedenborgian vision of the world , 45 symbolic hermeneutics , 39 symbolization , 18 , 21 , 31. See also hikayat T in spiritual world , 41. See also ...