Old stuff perhaps but new now. Really new in fact. What was dreamed by science fiction now living in our bodies as a consequence of biological warfare against Great Nature. Godless Technique. Henry Corbin tells us that one of the paramount differences between the philosopher and the gnostic lies in the way this absent God is encountered …
Old stuff perhaps but new now. Really new in fact. What was dreamed by science fiction now living in our bodies as a consequence of biological warfare against Great Nature. Godless Technique. Henry Corbin tells us that one of the paramount differences between the philosopher and the gnostic lies in the way this absent God is encountered and experienced. He writes, "what to a philosopher is doubt, the impossibility of proof, is to [the gnostics] absence and trial." The experience of emptiness and of human abandonment in a meaningless universe is conceived entirely differently by the philosophers and the gnostics. He continues, "What we experience as an obsession with nothingness or as acquiescence in a nonbeing over which we have no power, was to them a manifestation of divine anger, the anger of the mystic Beloved. But even that was a real Presence, the presence of that Image which never forsook our Sufis."
Old stuff perhaps but new now. Really new in fact. What was dreamed by science fiction now living in our bodies as a consequence of biological warfare against Great Nature. Godless Technique. Henry Corbin tells us that one of the paramount differences between the philosopher and the gnostic lies in the way this absent God is encountered and experienced. He writes, "what to a philosopher is doubt, the impossibility of proof, is to [the gnostics] absence and trial." The experience of emptiness and of human abandonment in a meaningless universe is conceived entirely differently by the philosophers and the gnostics. He continues, "What we experience as an obsession with nothingness or as acquiescence in a nonbeing over which we have no power, was to them a manifestation of divine anger, the anger of the mystic Beloved. But even that was a real Presence, the presence of that Image which never forsook our Sufis."