Nature Quote by Henry Corbin

““For this reason each lower Presence is the image and correspondence ( mithal), the reflection and mirror of the next higher. Thus everything that exists in the sensible world is a reflection, a typification ( mithal), of what exists in the world of Spirits, and so on, up to the things which are the first reflections of the Divine Essence itself.Everything that is manifested to the senses is therefore the form of an ideal reality of the world of Mystery ( nana ghaybi), a face ( wajh ) among the faces of God, that is to say, of the divine Names. To know this is to have the intuitive vision of mystic meanings (kashf manawi); he to whom this knowledge is given has received an infinite grace, says 'Abd al-Razzaq Kashani, the commentator of the Fusus. Consequently, all the sciences of Nature are based on the meaning of the typifications of the world of Mystery. And this is one of the interpretations given to the Prophetic maxim: "Men are asleep; at their death they awaken.””

— Henry Corbin