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Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist,... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma.... Prayer is a "creator" of vision,....
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Henry Corbin
Born:
April 14, 1903
Died:
October 7, 1978
(aged 75)
Bio:
Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, France.
Known for:
The man of light in Iranian sufism (1978)
Swedenborg and esoteric Islam
Avicenna and the visionary recital (1960)
The voyage and the messenger
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