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“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.”
― Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World
― Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World
“The symbol is not an artificially constructed sign: it flowers in the soul spontaneously to announce something that cannot be expressed otherwise. It is the unique expression of the thing symbolized as of a reality that thus becomes transparent to the soul, but which itself transcends all expression.”
― All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings
― All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings
“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived at by selective abstraction.”
― Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World
― Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World