TOWARDS A CHART OF THE IMAGINALPrelude to the Second Edition of
CORPS SPIRITUEL ET TERRE CELESTE
de l’Iran Mazdeen a l’Iran Shi’ite
HENRY CORBIN
This brief essay is worth posting here in spite of its availability elsewhere (including Temenos 1 (London, 1981) pp.23-36). I have on more than one occasion found that it is unknown to people who otherwise are familiar with Corbin's Spiritual Body & Celestial Earth (Princeton University Press, 1977). This "Prelude" to the Second Edition of CORPS SPIRITUEL ET TERRE CELESTE, de l’Iran Mazdeen a l’Iran Shi’ite (1st ed. 1961, 2nd ed. 1979) appears in the English edition only with the Fifth Printing (1989) of the book and may be unknown to those who have copies printed before then. The essay is of considerable interest for many reasons, not least because it addresses concerns Corbin had about the use and misuse of the term imaginal which came to his attention as his neologism gained in popularity.
Photo: Jerry Uelsmann. Untitled, 1992.
Chart of the Imaginal
Thank you for your site. I ordered your book from Amazon yesterday and it will arrive shortly. I am particularly interested in the realm of the Imaginal as Henri Corbin articulated it. Are there other articles by him or other scholars that you would recommend? I have read several of his translations of Iranian cosmology but want to focus in on the Imaginal.
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