ABSTRACT
The deeply spiritual Scottish naturalist, John Muir–who experienced God through the natural world and who was instrumental in the establishment of the first national park in the US–thought that the power of the imagination could make us infinite. Similarly, Einstein said that logic could take us from A to B, but the imagination could take us everywhere. The imagination is the vehicle that can take us anywhere, including into the spiritual realms "out" there, or "up" there. It can also take us "in" here, or "down" there, into the depths of the soul. The imagination is the instrument through which the above and below, the inner and outer, and the Pleroma and the created world can be reconciled and integrated. The imagination is the means of salvation. The Pleroma is both the fullness and the emptiness, and the return to the Pleroma requires both the path of fullness, the via positiva, and the via negativa.
