Zoom conferece | Prof. Charles M. Stang - "Henry Corbin, Platonism, and the Divine Double"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 เม.ย. 2021
- On 22 March 2021, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted Prof. Charles M. Stang via Zoom to deliver his talk, "Henry Corbin, Platonism, and the Divine Double".
Q&A: minute 52.00
This is great. Not enough material available for English speakers on the subject. Loving it.
Good to see some interest in Corbin’s work.
I had to sit down when he said it’s “People all the way down”
Only the revelation teaches the truth
Very good and wide aproach, pointing some of the important textual references to the double, still some aspects could be better explained if there was spiritual experience in the orator. I discord a bit on 1.22.00, as Henry Corbin is also projecting into his writings his experiences and initiations, and they are not only coming from a mental or academic work and research...
Corbin would not have bristled from that criticism. He did not and could not distinguish himself from his subject of inquiry; he was utterly lost in the visionary world of Iran.
Great lecture, but very unfortunate that persons in the meeting, dont turn of there webcam.
intresting ! :)
While we are on the subject of Henry Corbin and the angelic function of beings, who is that raven-haired, rouge-lipped, porcelain-complexioned Venus participating in this event?
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Nice to see recent lectures on Corbin. I would point out that this presentation is a good beginning but lacks the true depth of Corbin. Plato has only a small part here (although there is a significant later platonist influence (I so dislike the prefix "Neo-") . What we lack in understanding Corbin's work, are the gaps in our understanding of Pre-Socratic philosophy as well as a good understanding of the complexity of Ancient Iran and Persia, and predominantly because of the lack of translated sources in Persian and Arabic (that is those that survived). That's why Corbin is so important as Bloom points out in the foreword to Alone with the Alone. The lack of translated works is the main reason why we lose this ESOTERIC knowledge.
Also, The "Divine Double" in the Title is classical "Academy" speak for ANGELS. Please call it what it is. Corbin did. And though there is nothing written about technique (just the mention of Khalwa, L'tibar, and Dhikir) there are significant hints about how to seek the true "Orient".
For those who can read French, buy his works. Few have been translated to English. In particular, his magnum opus, En Islam Iranien and L'Archange empourpé.
This stuff is boring if you approach from a western scholastic approach. Now if you actually engage the process like Jung or Crowley, there you have fireworks.
To your point, read and do the ritual in Picatrix Book 3, Chapter 6
There's an unpretentious scholar who talks directly about the role Corbin plays in his own spiritual life. His name is Tom Cheetham. th-cam.com/video/E-sFVUF5FQQ/w-d-xo.html
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