The World Turned Inside Out

By Tom Cheetham,

Book cover of The World Turned Inside Out: Henry Corbin and the Angel Out Ahead

Book description

The first book in English to synthesize the remarkable work of Henry Corbin, the great French philosopher,
Christian theologian, and scholar of Islamic mysticism. Corbin, a colleague of C. G. Jung’s at Eranos, and one the
most important visionaries of the twentieth century, had a seminal influence on the development…

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1 author picked The World Turned Inside Out as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book comes to our rescue for those of us who wish to delve more deeply into the work of Henry Corbin. Cheetham helped me see that my practices cleared my heart so that inner visions would appear in their essential nature His words guided me to integrate difficult themes such as levels of being or lists of angels such that I could incorporate them into my heart.

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