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The Soul or Rational Psychology by Emanuel Swedenborg ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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The Importance of Imagination

The knowledge of universals can be compared with the sight which from a tower or lofty mountain contemplates the entire region and the city below. But he who walks about below and in the streets only comprehends certain parts successively, and thus scarcely one out of a thousand of those things which the memory of universals comprehends in an instant forty five. Imagination therefore only takes in the form of an object or of objects, and its quality according to the order, the placing and the connecting of the parts or of the ideas. The thought draws forth not the material form itself, of the parts, but out of such a form, or from similar forms collected together, it obtains a

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