Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam Quotes

“How should the first two chapters of the book of Genesis be understood in their internal, that is, spiritual, sense? It must be done by applying what the Christian world has so utterly forgotten: that everything in the Word, to the smallest detail, envelops and signifies spiritual and celestial things.”
― Henry Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam

“Finally, the Qur’ān (4:157) is resolutely “docetist”: Christ did not die on the cross; God raised him up unto Himself, for men did not have the power to kill the Word of God (Kalām Allāh), the Spirit of God (Rū Allāh). But men had the illusion that they killed him, and in doing so they obtained what they wanted: doubt, perplexity, misleading (all that we call “agnosticism”); the”
― Henry Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam

“A desire to investigate the mysteries of faith by means of the things of sense and of scientifics, was not only the cause of the fall of the posterity of the Antiquissima Ecclesia, as treated of in the second chapter of Genesis, but it is also the cause of the fall of every church; for hence come not only falsities, but also evils of life.”94”
― Henry Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam