This, then, naturally leads to the proposition that the human Will
is all powerful and the Imagination is a most useful faculty with a
dynamic force. The Imagination is the picture-making power of the human
mind. In the ordinary average human person it has not enough training
or force to be more than a sort of dream, but it may be trained.
When trained it is the Constructor in the Human Workshop. Arrived at
that stage it makes a matrix in the Astral substance through which
effects objectively will flow. It is the greatest power, after Will,
in the human assemblage of complicated instruments. The modern Western
definition of Imagination is incomplete and wide of the mark. It is
chiefly used to designate fancy or misconception and at all times
stands for unreality. It is impossible to get another term as good
because one of the powers of the trained Imagination is that of making
an image. The word is derived from those signifying the formation or
reflection of an image. This faculty used, or rather suffered to act,
in an unregulated mode has given the West no other idea than that
covered by “fancy”. So far as that goes it is right but it may be
pushed to a greater limit, which, when reached causes the Imagination
to evolve in the Astral substance an actual image or form which may be
then used in the same way as an iron moulder uses a mould of sand for
the molten iron. It is therefore the King faculty, inasmuch as the Will
cannot do its work if the Imagination be at all weak or untrained. For
instance, if the person desiring to precipitate from the air wavers in
the least with the image made in the Astral substance, the pigment
will fall upon the paper in a correspondingly wavering and diffused
manner.
To communicate with another mind at any distance the Adept attunes all
the molecules of the brain and all the thoughts of the mind so as to
vibrate in unison with the mind to be affected, and that other mind and
brain have also to be either voluntarily thrown into the same unison
or fall into it voluntarily. So though the Adept be at Bombay and his
friend in New York, the distance is no obstacle, as the inner senses
are not dependent on an ear, but may feel and see the thoughts and
images in the mind of the other person.
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