Henry Corbin Swedenborg Esoteric Islam

2 • Seebog  oeic slm Hece he doube aig agaist the ossibe doube rofa aio O oe hand, there is a rofaatio of he aura liera sese, if his is divered from its ed, exaied as though it ere sucie uto isef a i that ay esacraize, erived of its iera ad extera sacredess. O he oher ha, here is aso aays he dager, o he ar of ma, of a corrution of he siriua sese This siritua sense is tha of he Divie Huma ity, he sese i hich the ages of heae e, bu hich o oe ca see, says Sedeborg, ithou beig aced by the ord i divine truths. If ma ats  atai o it simy by meas of a fe corresodeces ko by him heoreticay, heave cses isef to im ad he is i eri of fag io a stae of siritual i sait. I is for this reaso ha guards ere osed befre the sactua of the Divie Wrd, i hich he are called Ce bm.  Ad by this ord, our aeto is dra to the drama ha cosists i the successio of the ages of humaity, is e history, is siritual histo 3 Te es o Humani

his histo  e hig moe tha te coiue eclie of he inera erso, if there ere no, from erid to eriod, a udgme i eave tha eeced a reesablishme Sede borga teosohy disguishes four grea eriods themselves comrsig subdivisis)6 We have aready acquaited our seves ith the rst, desigated as he Mos Aciet or pimal) Assembly, he ssm Eccles. his is the perio f a ve acie humaiy durig hich heave aced i uiso ith ma, because, cora o ha as o occur aeard, it as through direct iuece uo he el eso ad by meas of it hat heave iuenced the exerna erso Coseuey humaiy o oy had elighteme ad immediate spiriual erceio bu, by means of direct reatios ith the agels as aso iformed of heavely thigs ad of evethig hat crns etera ife.