The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.
In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.