IMAGINATION
Human Imagination as Divine Power / Blake's Vision
Human imagination is the divine power within us, often externalized and worshipped under other names. Through revision, we repeal unpleasant realities and…
Related Bible passages
- John 6:39
- Matthew 7:12
Related ideas
Human ImaginationDivineBlakeRevisionFather's WillDivine PowerInner RealityGolden RuleRedemption
Awakened Imagination
So we don't discard because the thing is unpleasant, we revise it; revising it we repeal it, and as we repeal it, it projects itself on the screen of space bearing witness to the power within us, which is our wonderful human imagination. And I say human advisedly -- some would have me say the word divine. The very word itself means nothing to man. He has pushed it off from himself completely and divorced himself from the thing that he now bows before and calls by other names. I say human imagination. As Blake said, "Rivers, mountains, cities, villages all are human." When the eye opens you see them in your own bosom, in your own wonderful bosom they all exist, they are rooted there. Don't let them fall and remain fallen; lift them up for the will of my Father is this, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing but raise it up again, and I raise it up every time I revise my concept of another and make him conform to the ideal image I myself would like to express in this world. When I do unto him what I would love the world to do unto me, and see in me I am lifting him up.
Human imagination is the divine power within us, often externalized and worshipped under other names. Through revision, we repeal unpleasant realities and project new ones. Blake's insight that "all are human" means that all external realities (rivers, mountains, cities) are rooted within our own consciousness. The Father's will to "lose nothing but raise it up again" is fulfilled by revising our concepts of others to align with ideal images, effectively doing unto others as we would have them do unto us.