Imagination's Real (God In My Brain) -- For D.D. at 69

Magic, being the science of universal equilibrium, and having the truth, reality and reason of being for its absolute principle, accounts for all the antimonies and reconciles all actualities which are in conflict with one another by the one generating principle of every synthesis – that harmony results from the analogy of opposites.  

For the initiate of this science religion is not in doubt because it exists, and we do not deny what is.  Being is being.  The apparent opposition of religion and reason is the strength of both, establishing each in its distinct domain and fructifying the negative side of each by the positive side of the other : as we have just said, it is the attainment of agreement by the correspondence of things that are contrary.  The cause of all religious errors and confusions is that in ignorance of this great law, it has been sought to make religion a philosophy 
and philosophy in its turn a religion.

Dave Davies: Imagination's Real (link) 

Sculptures:  Dan Flavin

Text:  Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), The History of Magic

EIDETIC (IMAGINATION'S REAL)

It has been established, says Dr. Brouwer, that sixty percent of all children (in Holland) see eidetically.  At school, however, where education trains the intellect, the power of eidetic seeing diminishes rapidly, so that in most cases it has begun to disappear at the age of twelve.  After the sixteenth year, no traces are found.

Still, there are some people who retain the power to see eidetically all their lives.  What they think, what they imagine, they actually see before them in real colors, shape and size.  Imagined objects or scenes are as visible, tangible and sometimes as audible to them as if they existed in reality.  From this capacity is derived the so-called “second sight” which is unquestionably very strong in certain individuals, and which enables them to see events in advance.  Persons endowed with this extraordinary quality are usually highly sensitive, almost supersensitive; their minds are as finely attuned and receptive as radar or radio antennae.  Poets and writers may fall into this class.

NOTE:  Dutch painters also.

Text:  Pierre Van Paassen, Why Jesus Died, New York, Dial Press, 1949. 

Dave Davies -- Imagination's Real (Link).

Imagination's Real (God In My Brain) -- For D.D. at 65

Magic, being the science of universal equilibrium, and having the truth, reality and reason of being for its absolute principle, accounts for all the antimonies and reconciles all actualities which are in conflict with one another by the one generating principle of every synthesis – that harmony results from the analogy of opposites.  

For the initiate of this science religion is not in doubt because it exists, and we do not deny what is.  Being is being.  The apparent opposition of religion and reason is the strength of both, establishing each in its distinct domain and fructifying the negative side of each by the positive side of the other : as we have just said, it is the attainment of agreement by the correspondence of things that are contrary.  The cause of all religious errors and confusions is that in ignorance of this great law, it has been sought to make religion a philosophy and philosophy in its turn a religion.

Dave Davies: Imagination's Real (link) 

Sculptures:  Dan Flavin

Text:  Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), The History of Magic