7 Quotes by Henry Corbin

It is up to each individual consciousness to develop its own symbol or symbols, its own symbolic universe.

Others love you for their own sakes.I love you for your own self,And you, you flee from Me.Dearly beloved!You can not treat Me fairly, for if you approach Me,It is because I have approached you.

(...) ces quelques lignes nous livrent peut-être le suprême message de la philosophie ismaélienne : " L’Imam a dit : Je suis avec mes amis partout où ils me cherchent, sur la montagne, dans la plaine et dans le désert. Celui à qui j'ai révélé mon Essence, c'est-à-dire la connaissance mystique de moi-même, celui-là n'a pas besoin d'une proximité physique. Et c'est cela la Grande Résurrection.

Our western philosophy has been the theater of what we may call the „battle for the Soul of the world.“ … Is it a matter of a battle that has finally been lost, the world having lost its soul, a defeat whose consequences weigh upon our modern visions of the world without compensation? If there has been a defeat, a defeat is still not a refutation.

The individual is identified with the perishable; what can become eternal in the individual pertains exclusively to the separate and unique active Intelligence.

How should the first two chapters of the book of Genesis be understood in their internal, that is, spiritual, sense? It must be done by applying what the Christian world has so utterly forgotten: that everything in the Word, to the smallest detail, envelops and signifies spiritual and celestial things.

It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane.