Al-Ghazālī (c. 1058-1111)
“Know that the low, dense, imaginal world became for the prophets a glass, a niche for lights, a purifier of the mysteries, and a ladder to the highest world.”
- From The Niche of Lights (second chapter, section 42) by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.