Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

183 Pages·2013·7.03 MB·English

by  Tom Cheetham

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TOM CHEETHAM has taught human ecology and is the author of The World

Turned Inside Out: Henry Corbin and Islamic Mysticism.

A volume in the SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions

David Appelbaum, editor

State University of New York Press

www.sunypress.edu

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SUNY SERIES INWESTERN ESOTERICTRADITONS
David Appelbaum,editor
GREEN MAN,
EARTH ANGEL
The Prophetic Tradition and
the Battle for the Soul of the World
Tom Cheetham
Foreword by
ROBERT SARDELLO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

To Joan,Ben,and Amy

Henry Corbin
1903–1978
Director of Studies in Islam and the Religions of Arabia,
École practique des Hautes Études,Paris;
Professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Teheran,Iran;
Lecturer at the Eranos Conferences in Ascona,Switzerland;
Co-founder,University of St.John of Jerusalem.

Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xix
One “We Are Now in Heaven”:The Mundus Imaginalis
and the Catastrophe of Materialism 1
TWO Consuming Passions:The Poet,The Feast,and
the Science of the Balance 13
THREE Black Light: Hades, Lucifer,and the Secret
of the Secret 31
FOUR Within This Darkness: Incarnation,Theophany,
and the Primordial Revelation 63
Five Harmonia Abrahamica:The Lost Speech and
the Battle for the Soul of the World 119
Notes 127
Works Cited 147
Index 155