Henry Corbin Quotes
Shiism is already and of itself the spiritual way, the ṭarīqah —that is to say, initiation.

-Henry Corbin
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Through his devotion to the holy Imāms, the Shiite is predisposed to receive this initiation from them, and such initiation provides him with a direct and personal link with the spiritual world in its 'vertical dimension' without his having to enter formally into an organized ṭarī . . . Read more

-Henry Corbin
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.

-Henry Corbin
(...) 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 c . . . Read more

-Henry Corbin
Finally, the Qur’ān (4:157) is resolutely “docetist”: Christ did not die on the cross; God raised him up unto Himself, for men did not have the power to kill the Word of God (Kalām Allāh), the Spirit of God (Rū Allāh). But men had the illusion that they killed him, and in d . . . Read more

-Henry Corbin
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 . . . Read more

-Henry Corbin
A desire to investigate the mysteries of faith by means of the things of sense and of scientifics, was not only the cause of the fall of the posterity of the Antiquissima Ecclesia, as treated of in the second chapter of Genesis, but it is also the cause of the fall of every church; fo . . . Read more

-Henry Corbin