An Inherent Property of Being
Imagination is an inherent property of our very own Being,
just as is the Word.
If we are to reflect a little about the use of imagination in
our daily life, we will soon see that we can't do without it.
Indispensable to Life
Let’s reflect a little now for ourselves. How would life be
without imagination? The first thing that we may discover is that one, we would
not have eyes to see. We would essentially not our eyes would we? Things would
not have a colour or a shape would they? Because imagination is what originally
gave everything in creation a shape and a colour. It is our imagination that perceives
and understands what we see with our eyes. It is also what perceives the dimensionality
of the things. It is what gives things their use.
How would we understand what people say without using our
imagination, how we would think, read a map, think of the Earth, a person, a
colour, design or create something if we did not have imagination?
How would new perceive ourselves without imagination? How
would we have a self-image if we did not have imagination? How would we have memory?
We use imagination to think. Our memory is basically images (silent
images) Without imagination we would not have thought and memory as we know it.
Reading a novel would be impossible almost without
imagination!
Our Relationship with Imagination
Like the word. we all have a certain relationship with
imagination. This is because it is a property of our Being. Like the word,
imagination is an area of our life that we can awaken to.
In fact, we can not do away with imagination just as we
cannot do away with the word, with energy, with force, with love, with light
etc.
We are always using imagination, either consciously or
mechanically i.e. subconsciously or infra-consciously. In the cases where we
use imagination consciously, imagination works for us. On the other hand, when
we use imagination mechanically, it can be working against as in the case of
fear, lust, greed etc.
Self-Observation and Imagination
When it comes to self-observation we have psychological
hearing and psychological seeing.
We in the beginning hear the thinking voice, which is also
what the ego uses to think and express itself. As we develop our imagination we
develop psychological seeing. Which gives us much more information about our
psychology. It adds a new dimension of knowledge onto what we can know and
understand about ourselves. This will make our psychological work more
efficient.
Faculty of Imagination
Imagination is a faculty of imaging i.e. perceiving and creating
images. It is the exclusive faculty that deals with images in the psychological
and esoteric realms of our system (Being). This makes it a faculty of knowledge
and also a faculty inherent in creation. Because the Being in us always
creates.
A Causal Faculty
In other words, imagination is a causal faculty. It is a
faculty used in epigensis. How is this you may be asking. Imagination is so
powerful a faculty that it can set up certain internal states within us just
like the word can and does.
Creates New States and Modifies Existing States
Imagination can create new states within our psychology and
modify existing states. The word has the power to do exactly that as well.
Imagination can make our internal states worse and even our
own psychology as a whole worse.
Affects Our Physiology
It can also affect our own physiology, making it better or
worse, in other words we can feel fine and well or sick and ill depending on
the use we give our imagination.
If imagination can make our physiology worse it can make our
as physiology better
A Faculty that Creates and Transfers
It is a faculty that we use to create, to transfer to
certain places outside and inside of ourselves and also a faculty to unite with
a chosen being, cause, activity, occurrence etc.
Imagination is so useful when it comes to transmutation. In
transmutation it fulfils its creative function and is used positively and
consciously. Lust uses imagination a lot as well to our own detriment.
Working with Imagination
We must start our work with imagination by controlling the
use the egos make of it. This is because much of our imaging faculty, is in the
hands of the many egos.
Just name an ego and it won't take you to find out how that
ego uses imagination.
When an ego uses imagination, it uses it to its definitive
advantage. That use of imagination is totally definitive. Control imagination and
you have firm grip on any ego.
End (2001).
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