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George MacDonald
 

George MacDonald was born in 1824 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and died in1905. He was the author of novels, poems, Christian theology, and fantasies for both children and adults.

Links to George MacDonald's novels and writings etexts are listed below.
image His understanding of the human imagination was profound. He understood man more as 'being thought' rather than 'thinking'. He saw the human imagination as created in the image of the imagination of God, and sourced and living within God's imagination.  An extract from Lilith
 

C S Lewis attributed the conversion or 'baptism' of his imagination to reading MacDonald's Phantastes, and refered to MacDonald as his master.

In his introduction to "George MacDonald: An Anthology" C S Lewis writes:
 

It must be more than thirty years ago that I bought - almost unwillingly, for I had looked at the volume on that book stall and rejected it on a dozen different occasions - the Everyman edition of Phantastes. A few hours later I knew that I had crossed a great frontier. I had already been waist deep in Romanticism: and likely enough at any moment to flounder into its darker and more evil forms, slithering down the deep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity. Now Phantastes was romantic enough in all conscience; but there was a difference.

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The quality which had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical,terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live. I should have been shocked in my teens if anyone had told me that what I learned to love in Phantastes was goodness. But now that I know I see there was no deception. The deception is all the other way round - in that prosaic moralism which confines goodness to the region of law and duty, which never lets us feel in our face the sweet air blowing from the land of righteousness, never reveals that elusive Form, which if once seen must inevitably be desired with all but sensuous desire - the thing (in Sappho's phrase) "more gold than gold"

The influences on George MacDonalds understanding of reality included William Law and Jacob Boehme
  

George MacDonald's books on the internet - download and be blessed!!

George MacDonald's novels and writings etexts on Project Gutenberg


George MacDonald's novels and writings etexts at CCEL



 

 
 

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