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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination is the capacity to project oneself outside realized realised things and towards things realizablerealisable, and then to draw them by the projection.<ref>http:/span/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. <span style="backgroundref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-color:transparent;color:of-imagination#000000;"> p1</spanref> <div style="colorref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#000000;"p25</ref>The Imagination is really 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 mental formationwill 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.</divref> <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">Our surface imagination is a selection from a vaster more creative and effective subliminal image-building power of consciousness//incarnateword..<in/cwm/03/span><span style="backgroundpower-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="backgroundof-color:transparent;color:imagination#000000;">It is a substitute for a truer consciousness faculty of intuition of possibility.p1</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"ref>Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span> = Imagination Represents Possibilities = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind constructs figures which are not true to the outer experience. They are the appearance of , it. Our mind is an observer in its nature a substitute for a truer consciousness's faculty of actualities and recipient intuition of truths not yet known or actualizedpossibility: as the mind ascends towards the truth-consciousness, this mental power becomes a dealer truth imagination which brings the colour and light of possibilities that mediate between the higher truth and actuality. It doesn’t have into the capacity to know everything limited adequacy or inadequacy of an infinite consciousness; </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind has limited the knowledge and , it has gives place wholly to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination higher truth-powers or itself turns into intuition and discovery.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000inspiration;">. It does not, like the infinite Consciousness, manifest the known, it has Mind in that uplifting ceases to discover the unknownbe a creator of delusions and an architect of error. </span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All imagination represents some form Mind then is not a sovereign creator of possibilities.</span><span style="backgroundthings non-colorexistent or erected in a void:transparentit is an ignorance trying to know;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perhaps its very illusions start from a very different form basis of actuality. &nbsp;Most of them some kind and are unrealized because they do not enter the scheme results of present reality a limited knowledge or do not come within the permitted potential of the individual or do not accord with collective principle or are alien to the nature of the current worlda half-ignorance.</spanref> = Nature of Imagination = <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">I</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">magination which persist /incarnateword.in /cwsa/21/the human -cosmic-illusion-mind, end often by self-fulfillment; individual thought formation can actualize themselves. If there is sufficient strength in the formation or in the mind that forms, it. </span><span style="backgrounddream-and-color:transparent;color:hallucination#000000;">&nbsp;p24</spanref><span style="background-colorref>http:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination can create its own potentiality//incarnateword. In fact all imagination represents possibilities.<in/cwsa/21/span> <span style="backgroundthe-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All human imaginations indeed correspond to some reality or real possibilities, though they may be quite inaccurate representation and therefore inapt to express the truth of supraphysical realities.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hallucination#000000;"> p25</spanref> = Types The mind has not the omniscience of Imagination = '''Mental Imagination''' <span style="background-color:transparentan infinite Consciousness;color:#000000;">The one which comes from the mind. It includes ideas, images, scenarios etc. This imagination it is more of delusional limited in nature. &nbsp;This imagination knowledge and has a common tendency to want to materialize. This is something that every human beings possesssupplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery. </spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp:#000000;">Ordinarily, our mental imagination is an instrument of Ignorance.</span> '''Truth Imagination''' <div style="color:#000000;">The one which comes from a higher state or truth consciousness. Inspiration and Intuitions are powers of this truth consciousness.</div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As the mind opens to the higher regions, a higher force passes through all mental layerincarnateword. <in/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It reveals itself as new truths, a new philosophical system, a new spiritual teachings. This imagination prepare a new age. All the saints and great beings possess this capacity of truth imagination.<cwsa/span> = Sources of Imagination = <div style="color:#000000;">The Mental and Truth imaginations have different sources.<21/div> <span style="backgroundthe-cosmic-illusion-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mental Imagination</span><span style="backgroundmind-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="backgrounddream-color:transparent;color:#000000;">is sometimes coming from a variation of a memory and/or combination of actualities. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hallucination#000000;">It is a substitute for true conciseness faculty of intuition of possibilities.p22</spanref> <div style="color:#000000;">The sources from which mental But it is to be noted that through imagination comes has nothing to do with the reason and mind does not care for any rational objections. They come from the vital mindreceive a figure of truth, does summon possibilities which picks up random suggestions anywhere and present it to are afterwards realised, does often by its imagination exercise an effective pressure on the mind just to see whether it will be accepted. If one watches he can see that a lot of irrational thoughts pass through mindworld's actualities.</divref> <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">It is //incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">vital cosmic-illusion-mind, i.e. the mental faculty under the influence of ‘desires, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after lifedream-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment’ which builds the plans and imagines.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hallucination#000000;">Ordinarily, the vital mind’s imagination is governed by an unbalanced vital, a weak nervous system and unruled impulses without any true mental will or strong vital to steady it.p24</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind is not an original and primary creative power of consciousness; it isa derivative, an instrument, an intermediary creator. &nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Our mind stands between superconscience and </span><span styleImagination in Children ="background-color:#ffffff;color:#009966;">Inconscience</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#009966;">subconscience</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">) &nbsp;and receives from both the these opposite powers.</span>

<span style=Children are not as "concretised"background-color:transparent, materialised in their physical consciousness as older people—as one grows up, it is as though one is coagulated and becomes more and more gross in one's consciousness unless through a willed action one develops otherwise. For instance, the majority of children find it very difficult to distinguish their imagination, their dreams, what they see within themselves from outer things. The world is not as limited as when one is older and more precise. And they are extremely sensitive within;colorthey are much closer to their psychic being than when they are grown up, and much more sensitive to the forces which, later, will become invisible to them—but at this moment are not. <ref>http:#000000;">A higher Imagination or </span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/05/30-december-color:transparent;color:1953#000000;">Truth Imaginationp3</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As mind ascends towards truth consciousness, the mental power becomes a truth imagination. </span><span styleWhy is Imagination Important? ="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The mind then is able to receive inspirations and seeing power of the mind develops. It is no longer constructing, imagining, fantasising, creating scenarios, but is a channel, a receptor of the higher knowledge, the truth consciousness. </span>

= How People who can open to Control Imagination =a higher region, a higher force which, passing through the mental layers, comes and takes a form in a human mind and reveals itself in the world as new truths, new philosophical systems, new spiritual teachings, which are the works and at the same time the actions of the great beings who come to take birth on earth. That is an imagination which can be called "Truth-imagination". These higher forces, when they come down into the earth-atmosphere, take living, active, powerful forms, spread throughout the world and prepare a new age. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#p7</ref> Men of science must be having imagination! A lot. Otherwise they would never discover anything. One can obviously have progressive and regressive imaginations. There are people who always imagine all the catastrophes possible, and unfortunately they also have the power of making them come. It's like the antennae going into a world that's not yet realised, catching something there and drawing it here. Then naturally it is an addition to the earth atmosphere and these things tend towards manifestation. It is an instrument which can be disciplined, can be used at will; one can discipline it, direct it, orientate it. It is one of the faculties one can develop in himself and render serviceable, that is, use it for definite purposes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p40</ref>

<div style="color:#000000;">One can turn If one didn't have the capacity of imagination upwards or downwardshe would not make any progress. Up above lies all inspiration One's imagination always goes ahead of artistic one's life, usually one imagines what one wants to be, and this goes ahead, and then one follows, then it continues to go ahead and literary thingsone follows. This comes from another domainImagination opens for one the path of realisation. People who are not imaginative—it is very difficult to make them move; they see just what is there before their nose, not they feel just what they are moment by moment and they cannot go forward because they are clamped by the mentalimmediate thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p38</ref> One must have a lively power of imagination for—there is a world in which you are the supreme maker of forms: that is your own particular vital repositoryworld. The finer beauty You are the supreme fashioner and creativity you can manifest through receiving light from abovemake a marvel of your world if you know how to use it. If you have an artistic or poetic consciousness, if you love harmony, beauty, you will build there something marvellous which will tend to spring up into the material manifestation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-april-1956#p55</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One can be aware The power of all the thoughts happening mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the mind and choose to is put them in their placecommunication with the Divine Will, keep some thoughtsthe supramental Truth begins to descend through the layers intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, destroy some and focus all formative power on creating reaching the mind, it finds there the images that confirms with one’s highest aspirationpower of making forms it easily becomes embodied and stays as a creative force in you. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">//incarnateword. Imagination is a faculty which can be disciplined, can be used at will, directed and oriented. It is one in/cwm/03/power-of the faculty one can develop in oneself and be used for definite purpose.-imagination#p1</spanref>

= Use of Imagination How to Cultivate Imangination? =

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination can be used to create one’s inner and outer A good deal of our life</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">embodies the products of our imagination. It is Every time we indulge our imagination in an elementary unhealthy way , giving a form to creating our fears and anticipating accidents and misfortunes, we are undermining our own future. On the other hand, the more optimistic one’s imagination, the greater the chance of forming things in the worldone realising their aim. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Our Therefore, never be dejected and disappointed but let your imagination goes ahead be always hopeful and joyously plastic to the stress of the higher Truth, so that the latter may find you full of our lifethe necessary formations to hold its creative light. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One can imagine what one wants to be and open paths for realizations/incarnateword. <in/cwm/03/span><span style="backgroundpower-color:transparent;color:#000000;">By using the power of -imagination one can project oneself into the future #p1</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"ref>Stop imagining wrong things and this helps your miseries will stop at the person in moving forward to actualizing that potentialsame time.</spanref> <div style="colorhttp:#000000;">Imagination is useful in science. Without imagination humans will not discover anything.</div> <div style="color:#000000;">The more optimistic one’s imagination is the greater the chances of realizing one's aim.</div> = Imagination and Yoga = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The power of imagination is very useful in yogaincarnateword. This power of making form is a stays as a creative potential form in oneself. </span><span style="backgroundcwm/15/wrong-thinking-and-color:transparent;color:illness#000000;">&nbsp;p1</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When The source from which these imaginations come has nothing to do with the reason and does not care for any rational objections. They come either from the vital mind is put , the same source from which come all the fine imaginations and long stories which men tell themselves in communion with which they are the heroes and do great things or they come from little entities attached to the physical mind which pick up any random suggestion anywhere and present it to the divine mind just to see whether it willbe accepted, the Truth begins or an unbalanced vital and a weak nervous system apt to follow its own imaginations and unruled impulses without any true mental will or strong vital will to descend through steady or restrain it. If one watches oneself closely one can find the layers between most queer and extraordinary or nonsensical things crossing the mind or peeping in on it in this way. Usually one laughs or hardly notices and the highest Lightthing falls back to the world of incoherent thought from which it came. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-color:transparent;color:consciousness#000000;">This often takes the form of vision, and its communion with the creative energy helps translate the seed ideas and imagination into manifested realities. p20</spanref> = Misuse of Imagination = <span style="background-colorref>http:transparent;color:#000000;">If Imagination is used //incarnateword.in unconscious and excessive way without discipline, it &nbsp;brings negative consequences on the person</span><span style="backgroundcwsa/31/accidents-possession-color:transparent;color:madness#000000;">.p32</spanref> <div style="color:#000000;">Most But if one stands back or ascends a step, one can look at all these things, put them in their place, keep some, destroy or get rid of the people give form to those one does not want and put all one's fears and anticipates accidents and miss fortunes. This undermines one’s own future. &nbsp;Stop imagining the wrong things and the misery will stop at the same time.</div> = Practices = <div style="color:#000000;">Imagining imaginative power—what is called imaginative—only in detail about how those one wants one’s spiritual and material life which conform with one's highest aspiration. That is a good practice what it means to gain clarity and inspiration towards life aheadcontrol one's imagination.</divref> <div style="colorhttp:#000000;">Being mindful of one’s Imagination is helpful to understand oneself better//incarnateword.<in/cwm/09/div> <div style="color:3-september-1958#000000;">Dream journaling is also a good exercise to understand the content of one's deep unconscious mind.p1</divref>

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