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Imagination is the capacity to project oneself outside realised things and towards things realisable, and then to draw them by the projection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p40</ref> It is really the power of mental formation, when one imagines something they make a mental formation, and depending on the quality and the power of the formation, some people succeed in making what they imagine real. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p25</ref> Everyone has in him, in a greater or lesser measure, the power to give form to his mental activity and use this form either in his ordinary activity or to create and realise something, for often, very often, in these mental imaginations there is a small element of will which tries to realise itself. We are all the time, always, creating images, creating forms. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#p9</ref> When this power is put at the service of divine, it is not only formative but also creative. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref> Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite, it is in its nature a substitute for a truer consciousness's faculty of intuition of possibility: as the mind ascends towards the truth-consciousness, this mental power becomes a truth imagination which brings the colour and light of the higher truth into the limited adequacy or inadequacy of the knowledge, it gives place wholly to higher truth-powers or itself turns into intuition and inspiration; the Mind in that uplifting ceases to be a creator of delusions and an architect of error. Mind then is not a sovereign creator of things non-existent or erected in a void: it is an ignorance trying to know; its very illusions start from a basis of some kind and are the results of a limited knowledge or a half-ignorance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p24</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p25</ref> The mind has not the omniscience of an infinite Consciousness; it is limited in knowledge and has to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p22</ref> But it is to be noted that through imagination the mind does receive a figure of truth, does summon possibilities which are afterwards realised, does often by its imagination exercise an effective pressure on the world's actualities. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p24</ref>