The question is at first to show that the figure of the Angel as mediator between the visible and the invisible worlds, which constitutes the fundamental element of the pictorial representations of the “Announcement” in Quattrocento, cannot be found in the Greek and Hindu polytheism, but appears only in the monotheistic religions, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christendom and Islamic religion, which all conceive God as being absolutely transcendent to the world. Then the analysis of Rilke’s figure of the Angel in connection to the figure of the Engel in Shia on the basis of Henry Corbin’s interpretation reveals a new conception of the concept of mediation which can also be found in Heidegger’s understanding of hermeneutics.
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