# Imagination ## The Interior Castle Study Edition Glossary The **power to picture things** to ourselves from the sense or material world around us. It is of special use in discursive meditation, in which a person pictures scenes from the life of Christ to help draw out some knowledge and love of the Lord. Teresa, when she wrote her [Life](app://obsidian.md/tj-life) and [Way of Perfection](app://obsidian.md/tj-way-of-perfection) , was not clear on the difference between the imagination and the [[intellect|Intellect]], and often confuses their activities. For example, in her descriptions of the [[prayer-of-quiet|prayer of quiet]] in [Way of Perfection](app://obsidian.md/tj-way-of-perfection), she speaks of the bother the wandering of the intellect caused her during the time of this prayer. She later understood that it was not the intellect but the imagination that was causing the trouble. [[tj-ic-ccel-05|IC Book 4.1]]* Teresa makes a distinction between the [[mind]] (which she says is the same as the [[imagination|Imagination]]) and the [[intellect|Intellect]]. Teresa laments how much souls suffer through lack of knowledge, even to the point of abandoning prayer. She urges perseverance. ## The Way of Perfection IMAGINATION. The power of making a visible representations within ourselves, as when we picture to ourselves scenes from the Lord's Passion ([[tj-way-ccel-34|34.8]]).