It's all very well listening to the rhetoric, 'we are all Gods because we are God's reflection', but how can you actually understand that, really see that as an image. Previously I shared one model in the candle analogy but recently came across another which is quite profound, and puts all of us in the picture.
Henri Corbin was into Sufism and psychology. He says that we do not see God because, when we look into the mirror, we do not see the mirror but the object reflected in it.
'When you contemplate a form in it, you do not see the mirror, though you see forms and your own form.....you cannot at the same time look at the image which appears in the mirror and at the body of the mirror itself....God....is your mirror, that is, the mirror in which you contemplate your Self....' (Corbin in Avens, 110)
Makes sense doesn't it? Needless to say this is the esoteric philosophical end of depth psychology.
Image: early digitally manipulated photographs of mine of a rock pool at the Gap
Reference: Avens, The New Gnossis
