“Whenever imagination strays and is wasted recklessly, when it ceases to fulfil its function of perceiving and producing the symbols that lead to inner intelligence, the mundus imaginalis…may be considered to have disappeared. In the West, this decadence may date back to the moment when Averroism rejected the Avicennian cosmology with its intermediary angelic hierarchy of the Animae or Angeli caelestes. These Angeli caelestes (on a lower rung of the hierarchy than that of the Angeli intellectuales) had in fact the privilege of imaginative power in its purest form. Once the universe of these souls had disappeared, the imaginative function itself was thrown out of joint and devalued. Thus one can understand the warning issued later by Paracelsus, who cautioned against any confusion…with fantasy, that “madman’s corner stone”.” PhilosophyImaginationFantasyAngelology Book:Mundus Imaginalis, or The imaginary and the Imaginal Source: Mundus Imaginalis, or The imaginary and the Imaginal
“Le mot "ésotérisme", entendu en son sens étymologique, désigne, dans les trois rameaux de la communauté abrahamique, un phénomène créant entre eux une communauté spirituelle, dont il incombe aux philosophes d'être les gardiens, les mainteneurs, fût-ce à rebours des forces "exotériques" qui édifient la façade de l'Histoire. À leur origine commune permane le "phénomène du Livre saint", impliquant le rang privilégié de la prophétologie, sous toutes les amplifications que peut lui donner la philosophie.” éSotérisme Book:تاريخ الفلسفة الإسلامية - منذ الينابيع حتى وفاة ابن رشد Source: تاريخ الفلسفة الإسلامية - منذ الينابيع حتى وفاة ابن رشد