Visability

This passage was about the imagination. The author speaks about Dante and how he is presented with scenes that act as quotations or representations of sins or virtues. Dante describes these visions that were presented to him and the author writes "they were film projections or television images seen on a screen that is quite separate from the objective reality of his journey beyond the earth." Dante, the poet is trying to direct Dante the actor to depict this visual content through this process of visual evocation. The author writes "Dante is attempting to define... the visual part of his fantasy, which precedes or is simultaneous with verbal imagination." In the next paragraph the author begins to describe two different processes of imagination. One, that starts with an image and arrives verbal expression and two, starts with verbal expression and arrives an image. 

The author goes on to talk about how the idea of the God of Moses does not tolerate to be depicted as visual images does not occur to Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The author uses this point to talk about Catholicism and their ability to use visual communication through works of art. As the author says, these works of art really do help believers grasp a visual understanding of the teachings. I can very much relate to this point because I grew up going to CCD classes and mass of Sundays because I come from a very religious family and seeing paintings and images of Jesus really helped me understand the stories at a young age. 

People say that as we grow older we tend to lose our imagination, and I agree with them. When we're younger our brains aren't as developed and we're not as knowledgeable about the world around us. Therefore we think of crazy stories and bright ideas, but as we get older and experience more things, we become less and less creative because things start to become predictable.