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In many aspects the eros, or epithumetikon as opposed to the thumetikon, can be imagined as the complete opposite of the thumos. Whereas the thumos rules over the positive (social) emotions, the eros yearns to set free the (biological) desires and urges. Whereas the thumos represents the vitalizing force of spiritedness, the eros reveals our basic

Intuition sees everything at once, given as a whole. Time strings things out into a chain of successive events leading toward a finishing line.

How can we understand a death that means new life or a darkness that shines?

The equations of math, the notations on a musical score, and the personifications of myth cross the limbo land between two worlds. They offer a seductive front that seems to present the unknown other side, a seduction that leads to the delusional conviction that math, music, and myths are the other side. We tend to believe that the real truth of

Corbin argues that the Mundus Imaginalis can also be apprehended in “the intermediary state between waking and sleeping”. The spiritualists of Shi’a Islam call this the “country of the hidden Imam”. As we shall see later, modern psychology calls this the hypnagogic state.

Jung went so far as to suggest that his patients prepare their own Red Books. Morgan recalled him saying: I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can—in some beautifully bound book. It will seem as if you were making the visions banal—but then you need to do that—then you are freed from the power of them. If you do that with