Without emphasizing the matter we may, then, say that this thesis rests on a weighty mass of facts; that the motor element of the image tends to cause it to lose its purely "inner" character, to objectify it, to externalize it, to project it outside of ourselves.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
This vague and "outline" imagination, penetrating our entire life, has its peculiar characters-the unifying principle is nil or ephemeral, which fact always reduces it to the dream as a type; it does not externalize itself, does not change into acts, a consequence of its basically chimerical nature or of weakness of will, which reduces it to a strictly internal and individual existence.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
And now, with higher, greater possibilities, the soul eagerly awaits the hour when it shall be born again, a conscious, responsible human being, to begin the second round of the Cyclic Ladder; on this second round, to externalize the knowledge gained, to evolve the involved attributes and forces of being,-a creature of will and intellect, to work out its destiny, as the lord of material creation.
"The-Light-of-Egypt-or-the-science-of-the-soul-and-the-stars-Volume-2"
Burgoyne, Thomas H.