Using Imagination Correctly

Imagination can be loosely defined as a veiled perception of truth. Mankind is the only living entity on this planet that can use imagination. It is a gift that most use negatively. Imagination is the picturing power of the mind; it is a constructive, or creative faculty if used correctly. Imagination has been the principal working tool of those outstanding people throughout the long annals of history, whose basic ideas have given us the means to allow us to develop and invent the necessities that allow us to live in the modern world today.

Take, for instance, the mental explorations of the French author, Jules Verne, famous for his scientific fantasy, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, a work that accurately describes our modern submarines. As one dwells upon the limitless creative resources residing within the World of Ideas in the Universal Mind, one is forced to accept the powerful motivating influence that imagination plays in today’s scientific developments. Without it no writer can create a story, no architect could possibly dream of the fantastic architectural wonders of today, or draft plans, neither could our scientists working in the various creative fields develop their modern inventions without these first having been discovered and drawn forth from the nebulous recesses of the World of Ideas in the Creative Universal Mind.

Just because two people happen to tap into the same idea at the same time in different parts of the world, doesn’t mean to say that one has stolen from the other. It simply means that they have both accessed the World of Ideas at a similar time.

There is nothing new on this planet, even though people will claim to have “invented such and such” or “discovered such and such”. All this information was encoded into the World of Ideas at the very inception of the planet, and it will be up to some creative being to tap into that level of consciousness at the appropriate time.

You can do this simply by using meditation and thinking of a concept and then letting the concept build in your mind through a series of pictures in your imagination. Or if you want to know the answer to a problem, go into a meditative state, hold the question about the problem in mind, and wait for the answer to come. Sometimes, as many people have discovered, the answer does not come right away but might come several days later. The ways that this can occur are myriad. The Creative Mind is not restricted to one method only.

As greater numbers of individuals learn the constructive use of the creative imagination, a final link with the higher planes of consciousness may well become an established fact, and disease will slowly fade away from this planet. However, in view of the general surge of unhappiness, war, discontent, lawlessness, and disruptive conditions engulfing the world, never has there been a more urgent need for people to tap into their own creative imagination to receive an influx of constructive ideas to counteract and overcome the disenchanting influences.

Please remember these words: “Know ye not ye are gods, sons and daughters of the Most High?” That being the case, remember that the Logos has given you the same creative power through your creative imagination. Use it to make your world beautiful and happy for all living creatures. This great gift is your birthright, and you alone determine whether you shall use the power or ignore it.

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The Precious Gift of Life

The world seems to be disturbed by destructive thoughts, violence and restlessness. People are overly concerned with their worldly possessions and are anxious over the things they think they need and should have.  Has everyone forgotten the blessing we each have in the form of life and consciousness?

It seems that it is time for a deeper appreciation of what we do have, and what we can still enjoy. Stop and think for a moment, and you will soon realize that there is one great thing in life that cannot be purchased, that cannot be decreed by any dictatorship, that cannot be legislated or humanly supplied exactly when we want it. That one great thing is life itself. We may improve our health, sculpt our physical bodies, eat all the right foods; we may buy supplements that will extend the length of our life, we may be able to create things that will make that life temporarily happier. But all of these things depend upon the first great fundamental requisite, and that is life itself.

Without life there is no need to seek for health, or to seek for happiness or peace; without life, there is no need for any of the things that man has created, or empires have organized, or that man can imagine. And yet the gift of life and consciousness itself is given to us abundantly by the Planetary Logos, our Creator. It seems to be something we do not ask for in the beginning as most people have no memory of lives between lives. It is also a thing, at this point, that we cannot control in the end. It is something that is given to all of us alike, regardless of race, creed, religion, social position or education.

The humblest little ignorant person on the planet enjoys life in all of its vital essence, just as freely as do those who live with great power and material comfort and attainment. And yet, those who have the most collection of worldly things and other paraphernalia find these worldly possessions of absolutely no value when the time draws near and life seems about to ebb away and to be withdrawn as freely as it was given to us.

There are two great mysteries that should hold the attention of everyone more than anything else in the world, and these relate to the understanding of life. The first one is connected to the beginning of life, and the gift of life to us, and the second one relates to the withdrawal of life and its ultimate existence on the earth plane.

In this greater appreciation of life, we would become less anxious to destroy it, injure it, or make life more sorrowful for others. For this reason, too, all thoughts of war would cease and all thoughts of unnecessary destructiveness would come to an end. If a large portion of the world and its peoples could truly enter into a spirit of thankfulness for life itself, there would be no wars, no struggle for power, no struggle to gain material objects. Perhaps the oncoming cycle of the sixth age in the overall cycle of seven great ages will bring the peace and harmony that everyone desires and a heightened awareness with an appreciation for all life.

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Are You a Mystic?

If you consider yourself a Mystic, you differ from another only insofar as you are aware of your relationship to the Logos, and you refuse to let the stresses of modern day living interfere with your connection to the source of your own being.

It is not easy, particularly at this time on the planet, to be constantly aware of your higher self, and seek guidance to live a truly spiritual life. This attitude requires the devotion of one’s soul, as well as the help of esoteric knowledge, teachers, and circumstances favourable for the learning process. Taken in the outer sense, life on earth has had a brutal history of construction, destruction, power struggles, and constant wars, to name but a few. To most people life seems to go nowhere; it consists of a series of difficult events that apparently randomly benefit culture or may equally accidentally or deliberately destroy it.

Let us consider another history, which has to do with life on earth in an inner sense. Here, there is not the dualism of construction and destruction as in the outer sense, although this still happens, but in a much more subtle way. What seems to happen is the cycling of man’s inner powers in an upward direction toward attunement with the Source. The outer history is concerned with time, while the inner is concerned with dimensions outside of time.

Outer history is full of past and future, of stress, anticipations, anxieties, fears, anger, and remorse over failure. There is no rest, only the flurry of activity in time. There is also the fear of death. The inner account begins outside of time. Every “moment” touches the Source, the Logos. There is no rush toward a paradise of the future, for paradise is a state of being and may be experienced now, outside the restrictions of time. It can be experienced through attunement when the body and physical consciousness are in a state of meditation, and then brought back into the physical reality as a state of consciousness. There need be no running forward in time to bring an increased consciousness of the present.

An emotionally purified consciousness is imperative to a mystic as nothing destroys the possibility of attunement like faulty emotional functioning. Meeting this necessity may be difficult at first, for our society condones the use of destructive emotional forms. We are taught to hate the enemy; our TV and our means of entertainment exhibit a stream of every kind of emotional contamination available. Of course, it is possible to live with all this, if you find other means of entertainment, such as an engrossing hobby of some description.

Intelligence is somewhat better understood than the emotions. This is a century of mass education and brilliant technology, and for good or ill, everyone has come to believe in it. It is a pity the education is not focused more on mastering life than gathering useless facts. The chief use of intelligence is not so much in becoming learned, as in being able to direct and integrate the different aspects of one’s being.

Only when the emotions and intellect work together can advances be made in the inner life. It is possible to know a thing without having feeling for it. This is one of the unfortunate aspects of our scientific world. By persistent overuse of the analytical method, most people have lost the power of intuition. Of course, logic and the analytic method are indispensable to our three dimensional world, but if we are really to hear and to know the inner levels of consciousness, we must become silent, and listen to the still, small voice of intuition.

 Mystical training cannot be accomplished in a group or at the social level, however, until you reach an advanced stage of development. First, you must leave yourself; that is, leave your little ego-self behind, and then return to yourself transformed. Only when you have trained yourself through diligent private practice will you be spiritually mature enough to integrate with, learn with, and possibly teach others.

Once transformed through your own diligent efforts, you will no longer be the slave of falsehoods because you will be in touch with your own higher self and will have moved from being a normal personality to a soul-infused personality. This is the mystic’s task. Difficult it may seem, but it is the only reliable and worthy way to bring personal and group effort into harmony with universal law.

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