Imagination
The “consequence of former experience” in previous lives. (AY, 296)
How can the imagination be properly defined? Usually people take the imagination to be their own invention of forms, but the imagination itself has its roots and distinctions. One may find the core of the imagination in the ‘chalice’, as the precipitation of many lives. However, the imagination is nourished not only by remembrances of past lives, but also by the action of the present. When the spirit participates in the life of the far-off Worlds, or in the Subtle World, or in the Astral World, then frequently the memories of these experiences are reflected as imagination. Often scholars obtain formulas, or direction, precisely through a communion with the Subtle World. Thought and striving are also kindled by the Subtle Spheres. But a spirit possessing the synthesis not only takes from the treasury of the ‘chalice’, but also is a true co-worker of Cosmic Forces. How many inexplicable causes of unquenchable imagination there are, and how many unexplainable manifestations of heart anguish! (FW III, 62)
Imagination is insufficiently developed in people. They are unable to imagine causes and effects. They do not know how to picture to themselves the most beautiful possibilities ... Those who know not how to think have no imagination. Loss of imagination is renunciation of joy. (BR, 609)
Even the imagination is created by a lengthy experience of accumulations through the centuries, and all qualities of the spirit pertain to the same law.
(HIER, 438)
Through will power one can alter one’s pulse. One can virtually stop the heart. One can perform many psychophysiological acts. But if you ask how to act now, I will say, Let your heart ascend. Imagine your heart as if it were within a chalice with an ascending flame. Thus, above physiological functions, let us set the upward striving of the heart to Hierarchy. (H, 233)
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