An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 31
An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St. John of Damascus (translated by E.W. Watson and L. Pullan, 1899)
1 BOOK II — CHAPTER 17: Concerning Imagination.
2 Imagination is a faculty of the unreasoning part of the soul. It is through the organs of sense that it is brought into action, and it is spoken of as sensation. Moreover an imagination is an affection of the unreasoning part of the soul which is occasioned by some object acting upon the sensation. But an appearance is an empty affection of the unreasoning part of the soul, not occasioned by any object acting upon the sensation. Moreover the organ of imagination is the anterior ventricle of the brain.