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Card #c318IR // #c318Synthesis

Imagination is the power by which the will forms sidereal entities out of thoughts, it can produce and cure disease.

— In our words · Source: A Short Enquiry concerning the Hermetic Art (A Lover of Philalethes (Vol. III))

[Use when]

When will + image is doing real work — placebo, panic, design, curse — and you need the mechanism named.

[Why it matters]

Thought → formed entity; the same power pathologizes and heals.

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