Green Man, Earth Angel The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World by Tom Cheetham.pdf

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

TOM CHEETHAM

Foreword by Robert Sardello

Green Man, Earth Angel explores the central role of imagination for understanding

the place of humans in the cosmos. Tom Cheetham suggests that lives can only

be completely whole if human beings come to recognize that the human and

natural worlds are part of a vast living network and that the material and

spiritual worlds are deeply interconnected. Central to this reimagining is an

examination of the place of language in human life and art and in the worldview

that the prophetic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—presuppose.

If human language is experienced only as a subset of a vastly more-than-human

whole, then it is not only humans who speak, but also God and the world with

all its creatures. If humans' internal poetry and creative imaginations are part

of a greater conversation, then language can have the vital power to transform

the human soul, and the soul of the world itself.

"Cheetham gives a very good overview of the many problems of scientific

rationalism as they connect to monotheism and Christian teleological thinking.

In contrast, he offers a new interpretation of ecology that is aesthetic and

soulful, based on the writings of Henry Corbin."

— Lee Irwin, author of Awakening to Spirit: On Life, Illumination, and Being

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

GREEN MAN,

SUNY SERIES IN WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITIONS

EARTH ANGEL

David Appelbaum, editor

The Prophetic Tradition and

the Battle for the Soul of the World

TOM CHEETHAM

Foreword by

ROBERT SARDELLO

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Henry Corbin

1903-1978

Director of Studies in Islam and the Religions of Arabia,

Ecole practique des Hautes Etudes, 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

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

XIX

ONE

"WE ARE NOW IN HEAVEN": THE MUNDUS IMAGINALIS

AND THE CATASTROPHE OF MATERIALISM

Two

CONSUMING PASSIONS: THE POET, THE FEAST, AND

THE SCIENCE OF THE BALANCE

THREE

BLACK LIGHT: HADES, LUCIFER, AND THE SECRET

OF THE SECRET

FOUR

WITHIN THIS DARKNESS: INCARNATION, THEOPHANY,

AND THE PRIMORDIAL REVELATION

FIVE

HARMONIA ABRAHAMICA.- THE LOST SPEECH AND

119

THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE WORLD

127

NOTES

147

WORKS CITED

155

INDEX

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