The Bible is addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation

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Blake's letter to Dr Trusler (1799): 'Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because it is addressed to the Imagination, which is Spiritual Sensation, and but mediately to the Understanding or Reason?' Imagination is a sense, felt as touch is felt; Neville proves it in vision, where the imagined feel of a pillow brings him back to his bed.

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Letter to Trusler | Is it not because it is addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and only mediately to the understanding, or reason?

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Imagination is the power to perceive what is absent from the senses

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Feel After Him ¶4

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That Which Already Has Been ¶2

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That Which Already Has Been ¶19

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Let me define Imagination for you. It is spiritual sensation, but the word “spiritual” is to most of us something that is not practical – the incorporeal as opposed to the corporeal.

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That Which Already Has Been ¶20

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Imagination is the power to perceive what is absent from the senses, and if you persist, you go beyond the sense man and go beyond the rational man.

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Walk by Faith ¶1

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Walk by Faith ¶13

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Walk by Faith ¶22

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Who Are the Condemned ¶41

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The Primal State ¶17

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The Primal State ¶20

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Law, Story-Telling, Picture-Taking ¶79

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The Law: Self-Circumcision ¶7

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The Fundamental Sin ¶47

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Your Creative Power ¶35

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The Father and Son ¶4

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Imagining Creates Reality ¶7

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Yours For the Taking ¶21

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Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") ¶37

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The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶1

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The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶19

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The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶23

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The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶28

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Faith in God ¶17

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Raise Imagination to the State of Vision ¶8

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The State of Vision ¶9

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There Is No Other God ¶17

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Before Abraham Was, I AM ¶1

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A Riddle ¶1

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A Riddle ¶27

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Many Mansions ¶14

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The Talent ¶13

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You Dare to Assume ¶1

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You Dare to Assume ¶2

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The Mystery Called Christ ¶1

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Neville Goddards Smell The Money Manifestation Technique ¶4

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Neville Goddards Smell The Money Manifestation Technique ¶17

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Neville Goddards Smell The Money Manifestation Technique ¶27

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Neville Goddards Smell The Money Manifestation Technique ¶28

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Prophetic Sketches July 18 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶1

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Eternal States ¶23

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The Head, the Source ¶30

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The Kingdom ¶25

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The Name of God Is the Key to Understanding the Bible ¶2

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Even the Wicked ¶22

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Repent and Believe in the Gospel ¶14

LectureRepent and Believe in the Gospel

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Repent and Believe in the Gospel ¶14

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Imagining is spiritual sensation. And take a simple little thing now that isn’t here [...]. It is not present that you and I can see it. I love to use a flower, any flower, but I like a rose.

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Fawcett's Letter (Imaginism) ¶4

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The Secret of Imagining and A Mystical Experience ¶13

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The Secret of Imagining and A Mystical Experience ¶13

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Imagination is spiritual sensation. Enter the image of the wish fulfilled, then give it sensory vividness and tones of reality by mentally acting as you would act were it a physical fact.

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Awake, O Sleeper! Arouse Thyself! ¶2

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The Law: Imagining Creates Reality ¶32

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