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Corbin, Henry - On mountains
Identifier
006639
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth – Henry Corbin [translated by Nancy Pearson] 1977
[Mountains] play an essential part in the composition of the visionary landscape that prefigures the transfiguration of the Earth. They are pre-eminently the seat of theophanies and angelophanies. According to ritual, on the 28th day of the month (the day of Zamyat), the liturgy is offered…. To the mountains of the dawns, to all the mountains, to the Light of Glory. A connection is already outlined, the patterns will become clear…
We can leave aside here all discussion of positive material topography and concern ourselves only with the Image, insofar as it is an organ of perception and insofar as it is itself perceived through psycho-geometry.