ABSTRACT
Gregory's historical writing usually passes for one of the most naively credulous of all sorts of more-than-natural events. This chapter shows that Gregory was perfectly aware of his and others’ apperceiving spiritual reality through the mediation of a strategy of meditative, literary imagination that recognized analogies of spiritual symbols and dynamics in the phenomena and events in the visible world. It looks at what Gregory tells us about recognizing images of hidden divine messages in the sacred text, and looks at his reports of indirect or direct “seeing” of invisible spiritual reality in the world, and discusses two stories in which he seems to reveal his view of the role of imagination in the communication of these experiences to others. For Gregory, God had not only created the world, but was also still directing it in every phenomenon and event.
