ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns explicating a modality of perception, the mundus imaginalis, that is understood as both enabling and constituting the apprehension of the 'between'. The mundus imaginalis is positioned at the meeting place of the two forces of desire. It is not only constructed as a 'faculty' to perceive the intermediary, it is presented as an intermediary zone between God and humanity. Placed between the examination of mundus imaginalis and Kantian disinterest is a short discussion of Romanticism. Although placed outside of a historical chronological order, Romanticism is a hinge for the drawing together of these considerations, as its ideology contains conceptual correlates with Esoteric perceptual schemes and Luce Irigaray's project, as well as the intertwining of aesthetic and spiritual experience. The Romantic imagination, according to Charlotte Dormandy, is visionary and affirms the subject's involvement in transcendent reality.
