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A Good Dose of Imagination - (2001)

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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