Memory, Imagination, Soul

Yates, p. 33: "Memory, he continues, belongs to the same part of the soul as the imagination; it is a collection of mental pictures from sense impressions but with a time element added, for the mental images of memory are not from perception of things present but of things past."

That one is able to remember leaves the question are the memories imagined more than memory. Most stories of when someone was younger are often told so many times, people think they remember them when in reality they are often simply imagining what is being told to them.

Yates, p. 45: "A power able to bring about such a number of important results is to my mind wholly divine. For what is the memory of things and words? What further is invention?...Assuredly nothing can be apprehended even in God of greater value that this...Therefore the soul is, as I say, divine, as Eruipides dares say, God..."

Yates, p. 45: "The soul's remarkable power of remembering things and words is a proof of its divinity; so also is its power of invention, not now in the sense of inventing the arguments or things of a speech, but in the general sense of invention or discovery."