"Have you seen the marvel, my hearer, and by what means? Was it with the help of that beautiful power in the soul which consoles and rejoices the childlike element in us, that beautiful power which calls forth the figure our longing craves for, beloved figure of memory, something more than a deceiving presence from bygone days-but also alarms us by the images of horror produced by fear and suspicion? Certainly this power can do a great deal. But what it produces is after all your own creation, even though when produced it becomes effective through the power you gave it. And what this power produces must in one way and another be visible to the earthly eye. But the object of faith, cannot be seen by the earthly eye, and, therefore, cannot show itself in the pictures produced by imagination.. ... . And even if such a figure were to appear, it cannot calm the strife because everything that the imagination creates is unit without context."
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