I continue to try to write and speak of two realms which I know, and am not able, at least so far, to speak of and write about with the needed depth and breadth of clarity -- the realms of the Imaginal and of the Soul's Joy. I have found a kindred spirit in Jan Van Ruysbroeck. Here are two quotes from him I read this morning.
The Realm of the Imaginal --
By this fierce ardour and this impatience some men are at times caught into the spirit, above the senses; and there words spoken to them and images and similitudes shown to them, teaching them some truth of which they or other men have need, or else things that are to come. These are called revelations or visions. If they are bodily images, they are received in the imagination. This may be the work of an angel in man, through the power of God.
The Realm of the Soul's Joy --
...Sometimes a man may also be drawn above himself and above the spirit (but not altogether outside himself) into an Incomprehensible Good, which he shall never be able either to utter or to explain in the way which he heard and saw; for in this simple act and this simple vision, to hear and to see are one.
Both quotes are from Jan Van Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
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