Imaginal Love

Edward Whitmont’s fine book The Symbolic Quest.

Corbin pointedly says that the Aristotelian “logical universal” is nothing more than the dead body of an Angel.

David Abram understands human language as an extension of the biological world from which we evolved.

the creative and active Imagination. It is the exercise of this faculty, conceived not as a merely human attribute but as continuous with the creative power of the world, that provides the means by which the intensive self can escape from its prison and enter that wider, more-than-human world.

In order to make in progress in any situation of conflict you have to be able to imagine, feel, intuit, and think your way into the position of the other person.

Perhaps it is better to say that something has to become present.

It presumes and mirrors one of the fundamental dichotomies that characterizes the Western rationalist world view ‒ that between thought and things.

Knowledge, whether granted freely via Revelation or gained with the cooperation of human intellect, is a result of illumination from above, not the culmination of a process of abstraction, deduction, or induction from the “data” of sense perception.

Corbin died in 1978, the year of Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in Iran. I assume that Iranian unrest provides the context for Corbin’s remarks.