Active Imagination And Its Role In Magick
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ― William Blake Of all the principles of magick, when one casts aside the formalities of ritual and ceremony, fashion and accessories, at the heart of its function and successful working is active imagination and/or visualization. While these two terms share attributes and can be interchanged to some degree, they work cooperatively to produce the results of "real" magick. One might picture active imagination as a train and visualization as the track upon which it travels. C. S. Lewis described active imagination as "the organ of meaning" and considered it a conscious method of experimentation. It employs creative imagination as an organ for "perceiving outside your own mental boxes." An