# Jan. 20
> Reading:
The change of Shelley's conception of God and divinity reminds me of C.S. Lewis' conversion from an atheist to a Christian. It is to find the reconciliation between reason and imagination and to recognize the synthetic power of imagination, especially in face of the unknown. Here is a poem written by C.S. Lewis which explores the relationship of these two faculties in the human mind:
> Set on the soul's acropolis the reason stands
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> A virgin, arm'd, commercing with celestial light,
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> And he who sins against her has defiled his own
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> Virginity: no cleansing makes his garment white;
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> So clear is reason. But how dark, imagining,
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> Warm, dark, obscure and infinite, daughter of Night:
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> Dark is her brow, the beauty of her eyes with sleep
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> Is loaded and her pains are long, and her delight.
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> Tempt not Athene. Wound not in her fertile pains
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> Demeter, nor rebel against her mother-right.
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> Oh who will reconcile in me both maid and mother,
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> Who make in me a concord of the depth and height?
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> Who make imagination's dim exploring touch
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> Ever report the same as intellectual sight?
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> Then could I truly say, and not deceive,
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> Then wholly say, that I B E L I E V E.
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