" Our western philosophy has been the theater of what we may call the „battle for the Soul of the world.“ … Is it a matter of a battle that has finally been lost, the world having lost its soul, a defeat whose consequences weigh upon our modern visions of the world without compensation? If there has been a defeat, a defeat is still not a refutation. "

― Henry Corbin , Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran