A two-term anatomy of imagining that Neville states in the same words across lectures. Memory is the conservative aspect: an imagination fed only on images supplied by memory can do nothing but perpetuate what already is - he never did it, therefore he isn’t going to do it, and he never did it, therefore he cannot do it - and a man who feeds himself that way all day long keeps his world exactly as it stands. The transformative aspect takes a scene that is already in being and modifies it: the same house, the same building, the same children, the same husband, and against that wall an instrument that were it true would let him hear the music he wants to hear. He identifies the transformative aspect with repentance. In two other lectures the same sentence - memory is the conservative aspect of imagining - opens the practice of revision instead: memory is called up as a servant to recall the day, and every scene that does not conform to the day as one wished it is beautified and revised (1223, 1850). At 1874 the frame is extended by a third term he does not name the same way: in the kingdom we create radically, needing no memory image to supply models, creating out of the nowhere - so the conservative and transformative aspects are both marks of being shut out, and radical creation is what the kingdom restores. That third term is told once in the lectures I have read and should be treated as unverified. NOTE ON WORDING: the recurring form is 'memory is the conservative aspect of imagining', which does not occur verbatim at 1874; the wordings recorded here are 1874's own phrasing, because the writer requires wordings to be present in the payload lecture.