“ Fascination is the power and act of imagination intensive upon other bodies than the body of the imaginant, for of that we spake in the proper place. ”
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605). copy citation
| Author | Francis Bacon |
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| Source | The Advancement of Learning |
| Topic | imagination fascination |
| Date | 1605 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5500/5500-h/5500-h.htm |
Context
“For the retiring of the mind within itself is the state which is most susceptible of divine influxions; save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency and elevation (which the ancients noted by fury) , and not with a repose and quiet, as it is in the other.
(3) Fascination is the power and act of imagination intensive upon other bodies than the body of the imaginant, for of that we spake in the proper place. Wherein the school of Paracelsus, and the disciples of pretended natural magic, have been so intemperate, as they have exalted the power of the imagination to be much one with the power of miracle-working faith.”
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