Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy

[otherbrother]

Though I don’t think they are identical, the imaginal world in which visionary events and symbolic histories appear in their true reality is analogous to the metaxu in which Sophia appears as (and at) the threshold between the Creation and Divinity. Both represent an absolute reality of the structures of the cosmos and of consciousness, though both are almost entirely ignored by contemporary science, philosophy, and theology. Only at the fringes of theology does Sophia find welcome, and only in rare subcultures of the arts does serious consideration of the imaginal obtain purchase.

Replied simply to highlight for myself and contemplate further, later. Fascinating

 

[otherbrother]

The great French scholar and philosopher of religion Henri Corbin explains the characteristics of the imaginal realm:
"Between the universe that can be apprehended by pure intellectual perception and the universe perceptible to the senses, there is an intermediate world, the world of idea-images, of archetypal figures, or subtle substances, of ‘immaterial’ matter. This world is as real and objective, as consistent and subsistent as the intelligible and sensibly worlds; it is an intermediate universe ‘where the spiritual takes body and the body becomes spiritual,’ a world consisting of real matter and real extension, though by comparison to sensible, corruptible matter these are subtle and immaterial. The organ of the universe is the active imagination; it is the place of theophanic visions, the scene on which visionary events and symbolic histories appear in their true reality."

We tend to locate imaginal processes in the realm of subjective reality, but apparently Corbin thinks there is a different kind of objectivity to it and that it interfaces with the regular objective reality we are in. I think he is/was probably onto something there.

 

[otherbrother]

Replied simply to highlight for myself and contemplate further, later. Fascinating

I recently read about mention in the Bible of a female presence somewhere within the Creation account. But I think it might have been in a Bible book later than Genesis.

 

[Thomas]

I recently read about mention in the Bible of a female presence somewhere within the Creation account. But I think it might have been in a Bible book later than Genesis.

Elohim is plural and feminine. Sophia is feminine.