H. Corbin on the 'Ariano-Sufic' Hyperborean Gnosis
On a more serious note and for those who still haven't read them
(twice), see, in a traditional Aryan context, 'Meditations from the
Peaks' (more specifically, 'The Mountain and Spirituality' and 'Some
Remarks Concerning the Divinity of the Mountains', Part One) and
'Revolt Against The Modern World', Chapters 24-26, not to mention
'Arktos : The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival' by
J. Godwin.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:ex6Z8UjrwsEJ:www.eaudrey.com/
myth/Places/
Mercator%2520Article.pdf+muslim+%22the+polar+myth%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=ukis
also worth reading, apart from the trivial conclusion.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com,
"brightimperator" <brightimperator@...> wrote:
>
> From Henry Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth (trans. Nancy
> Pearson, Princeton University Press, 1989, pps. 71-72).
>
> "...That is why the progression, which this mode of thought makes
it
> possible for us to conceive, is not a horizontal linear evolution,
> but an ascent from cycle to cycle, from one octave to a higher
> octave. A few pages from the same Shaikh, which have been
translated
> here, illustrate this. The spiritual history of humanity since Adam
> is the cycle of prophecy following the cycle of cosmogony; but
though
> the former follows in the train of the latter, it is in the nature
of
> a reversion, a return and reascent to the pleroma. This has a
gnostic
> flavor to be sure, but that is exactly what it means to 'see things
> in Hurqalya.' It means to see man and his world essentially in a
> vertical direction. The Orient-origin, which orients and magnetizes
> the return and reascent, is the celestial pole, the cosmic North,
> the 'emerald rock' at the summit of the cosmic mountain of Qaf, in
> the very place where the world of Hurqalya begins; so it is not a
> region situated East on the maps, not even those old maps that
place
> the East at the top, in place of the North. The meaning of man and
> the meaning of his world are conferred upon them by this polar
> dimension, and not by a linear, horizontal and one-dimensional
> evolution, that famous 'sense of history' which nowadays has been
> taken for granted, even though the terms of reference on which it
is
> based remain entirely hypothetical.
>
> Moreover, the paradise of Yima in which are preserved the most
> beautiful of beings who will repopulate a transfigured world,
namely,
> the Var that preserves the seed of the resurrection bodies, is
> situated in the North. The Earth of Light, the Terra Lucida of
> Manicheism, like that of Mazdeism [Zoroastrianism], is also
situated
> in the direction of the cosmic North. In the same way, according to
> the mystic Abd al-Karim Jili, the 'earth of the souls' is a region
in
> the far North, the only one not to have been affected by the
> consequences of the fall of Adam. It is the abode of the 'men of
the
> Invisible,' ruled by the mysterious prophet Khizr (Khadir). A
> characteristic feature is that its light is that of the 'midnight
> sun,' since the evening prayer is unknown there, dawn rising before
> the sun has set. And here it might be useful to look at all the
> symbols that converge toward the paradise of the North, the souls'
> Earth of Light and castle of the Grail...."
>