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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.”

Humanity Imagination Mystery Humility Experience Myth Awe Will Revelation

Book:Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

Source: Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

“Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.”

Soul Fundamentalism

Book:Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

Source: Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

“And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.”

Reason Inspiration Balance Madness Orthodoxy Revelation

Book:Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

Source: Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

“Having Khidr as a master gives the disciple a transcendent dimension. It confers a 'personal, direct, and immediate bond with the Godhead' . . . Each disciple becomes what Khidr is, the center of the world.”

Sufism Khidr Way Of The Sufi

Book:All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings

Source: All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings

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