Mundus Imaginalis; Or: The Imaginary and The Imaginal by Henry Corbin

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Corbin coined the term mundus imaginalis, which he intended to encapsulate this: “a world that is ontologically as real as the world of the senses and that of the intellect. This world requires its own faculty of perception, namely, imaginative power, a faculty with a cognitive function, a noetic value which is as real as that of sense perception or intellectual intuition.” For Corbin this world exists between the empirical and the abstract intellect, both intermediary and intermediate, “described by our authors as the ‘alam al-mithal’, the world of the image”. Corbin was not merely theorising nor philosophising: he was describing something that for him was very real. (see the following: https://advaya.life/articles/accessing-the-mundus-imaginalis-with-the-modern-mind)