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Imagination is the capacity to project oneself outside realized realised things and towards things realizablerealisable, and then to draw them by the projection.  The Imagination <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. Our surface imagination is a selection from a vaster more creative and effective subliminal image<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-building power of consciousness.. It is a substitute for a truer consciousness faculty of intuition of possibility. -imagination#p1</ref> Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite.  = Imagination Represents Possibilities = 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 actualized, a dealer of possibilities that mediate between possibility: as the mind ascends towards the truth and actuality. It doesn’t have the capacity to know everything of an infinite -consciousness; Mind has limited knowledge and it has to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery. . It does not, like the infinite Consciousness, manifest the known, it has to discover the unknown.  All this mental power becomes a truth imagination represents some form of possibilities. Perhaps a very different form of actuality. Most of them are unrealized because they do not enter which brings the scheme colour and light of present reality or do not come within the permitted potential of higher truth into the individual limited adequacy or do not accord with collective principle or are alien to the nature inadequacy of the current world. = Nature of Imagination = Imagination which persist in the human mindknowledge, end often by selfit gives place wholly to higher truth-fulfillmentpowers or itself turns into intuition and inspiration; individual thought formation can actualize themselves. If there is sufficient strength in the formation or Mind in the mind that forms, it. Imagination can create its own potentiality. In fact all imagination represents possibilities. All human imaginations indeed correspond uplifting ceases to some reality or real possibilities, though they may be quite inaccurate representation a creator of delusions and therefore inapt to express the truth an architect of supraphysical realitieserror.  = Types of Imagination = '''Mental Imagination''' The one which comes from the mind. It includes ideas, images, scenarios etc. This imagination Mind then is more not a sovereign creator of delusional things non-existent or erected in nature. This imagination has a common tendency to want to materialize. This is something that every human beings possess. Ordinarily, our mental imagination void: it is an instrument of Ignorance. '''Truth Imagination''' The one which comes ignorance trying to know; its very illusions start from a higher state or truth consciousness. Inspiration basis of some kind and Intuitions are powers the results of this truth consciousness. As the mind opens to the higher regions, a higher force passes through all mental layer. It reveals itself as new truths, limited knowledge or a new philosophical system, a new spiritual teachingshalf-ignorance. This imagination prepare a new age<ref>http://incarnateword. All in/cwsa/21/the saints -cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and great beings possess this capacity of truth imagination-hallucination#p24</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword. = Sources of Imagination = The Mental and Truth imaginations have different sources. Mental Imagination is sometimes coming from a variation of a memory in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p25</or combination ref> The mind has not the omniscience of actualities. It an infinite Consciousness; it is a substitute for true conciseness faculty of intuition of possibilities. The sources from which mental imagination comes limited in knowledge and has nothing to do with the reason supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and does not care for any rational objectionsdiscovery. <ref>http://incarnateword. They come from in/cwsa/21/the vital -cosmic-illusion-mind, which picks up random suggestions anywhere -dream-and present -hallucination#p22</ref> But it is to the mind just to see whether it will be accepted. If one watches he can see noted that a lot of irrational thoughts pass through mind. It is imagination the vital minddoes receive a figure of truth, does summon possibilities which are afterwards realised, idoes often by its imagination exercise an effective pressure on the world's actualities.e<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/21/the mental faculty under the influence of ‘desires, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after lifecosmic-illusion-mind-dream-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment’ which builds the plans and imagines. 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.-hallucination#p24</ref>

As mind ascends towards truth consciousness, the mental power becomes a truth imagination. The mind then = Why 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. Imagination Important? =

= 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>

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. Imagination opens for one the path of realisation. This comes from another domainPeople 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</ref>

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 thoughts, destroy some the supramental Truth begins to descend through the layers intervening between the mind and focus all formative power on creating the images that confirms with one’s highest aspiration. Imagination is a faculty which can be disciplinedLight and if, can be used at willon reaching the mind, directed it finds there the power of making forms it easily becomes embodied and orientedstays as a creative force in you. It is one <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of the faculty one can develop in oneself and be used for definite purpose.-imagination#p1</ref>

= Use of Imagination How to Cultivate Imangination? =

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

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