Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 The Spiritual Vision of Henry Corbin 1
Introduction 1
A Biographical Sketch 7
The Legacy of Henry Corbin 12
The Major Themes of Corbin's Thought 16
Chapter 2 Hermeneutics of the Soul: Cyclical Time 32
By Way of Orientation 32
The Orient of Light 37
Cyclical Time in Mazdaism 40
Cyclical Time in Ismailism 48
Chapter 3 Hermeneutics of the Soul: The Visionary Recital 61
A Phenomenology of the Angelic Consciousness 61
The Philosophical Situation 63
The Stranger, the Guide, and the Return of the Soul 75
Chapter 4 In Search of the Lost Speech 87
The Great Drama 87
Ta'wil and Freedom of the Soul 92
The Primacy of the Act 108
The Angel out Ahead 114
The Moth and the Flame 120
Chapter 5 Imagining the Imaginal 130
Angels and Demons, Integration and Orientation: Henry Corbin Meets C. G. Jung 130
Job, Zarathustra, and the Shadow of a Doubt 140
Active Imagination: Therapeutics and Psycho-cosmology 159
Toward a Phenomenology of the Icon 182
Chapter 6 The Vale of Soul-Making 190
Chapter 7 On the Bridge 204
Chapter 8 The Test of the Veil 215
Are You Alive? 215
The Dynamics of Love 225
Chapter 9 The Ignorance of Angels 234
Acknowledgments 252
Notes 254
Bibliography 274
Index 283
About the Author 290