“On both sides we encounter the idea that the Godhead possesses the power of Imagination, and that by imagining the universe God created it; that He drew this universe from within Himself, from the eternal virtualities and potencies of His… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's erect stance. This is the movement of the growth of man, whose head rises toward the heavens. ( b ) There is the horizontal movement, which corresponds to the orant's state at the moment of the profound inclination.… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.” — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“The authentic mystic wisdom ( mafrifa) is that of the soul which knows itself as a theophany, an individual form in which are epiphanized the divine Attributes which it would be unable to know if it did not discover and apprehend them in itself. 'When you have entered into my Paradise, you have entered into your- self ( into your… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“What explanation does Ibn Arabi give for these phenomena ? A first explanation invokes the hierarchical planes of being, the Hadarat, or "Presences." There… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“On both sides we encounter the idea that the Godhead possesses the power of Imagination, and that by imagining the universe God created it; that He drew this universe from within Himself, from the eternal virtualities and potencies of His own being; that there exists between the universe of pure spirit and the sensible world an intermediate world which is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“The theosophy of Light suggests the metaphor of the mirror and the shadow. But "shadow" must not be taken to imply a dimension of Satanic darkness, an Ahrimanian antagonist; this shadow is essentially a reflection, the projection of a silhouette or face in a mirror. Our authors even speak of a "luminous shadow" ( in the sense that color is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, ... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma. ... Prayer is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“But again we must be careful to bear in mind that for Ibn Arabi fana is never absolute annihilation ( the failure to do so has been a source of countless misunderstandings in regard both to Sufismm and to Buddhism ). Fana and baqa are always relative terms. Accord- ing to Ibn Arabi, one must always state toward what there… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“To begin with, let us recall the /J,adltlt which all our mysticr of Islam untiringly meditate, the �adltlt in which the Godhead reveals the… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“In this essential point Ibn rArabi declares concisely: "Those to whom God remains veiled pray the God who in their belief is their Lord… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.” — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
![“In this essential point Ibn rArabi declares concisely: "Those to whom God remains veiled pray the God who in their belief is their Lord to have compassion with them. But the intuitive mystics [Ahl al-Kashf] ask that divine Compassion be fulfilled [come into being, exist] through them."28 In other…” quote by Henry Corbin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13a/henry-corbin-26358_prayer_in-this-essential-point-ibn-rarabi-decla_1274231.jpg)
