37. The imaginative power manifests all things all around, as the moving waters, show the rise and fall of the waves in the sea. “It gives a shape of airy nothing”. “It is the power of apprehending ideas and combining them into new forms and assemblages”. 38. It was this imaginative power of God, which raised the ideas of things in his omniscient and all comprehensive soul; and these ideals were afterwards manifested as real by his omnipotence; just as things lying in the dark are brought to view by the light of the day. (Imaginatio est rei corporae figuram contemplari. Descartes and Addison. It is a lively conception of the objects of sight. Reid. It recalls the ideas by its reproductive fancy, and combines them by its productive power). 39. Know hence, O Ráma! the whole universe to be the net-work of imagination, and your fancy to be the most active power of the mind. Therefore repress the thickening phantoms of your fleeting fancy, and obtain your tranquility by your sole reliance on the certainty of the immutable soul of souls. “Retire the world, shut out, imagination’s airy wings repress; call thy thoughts home &c.” Young’s Night thoughts. THE CO-ORDINATE TRIADS. -----------------------------|-----------------|--------------------- / I. |II. |III. / | | / The Three Princes or |The Three Stages |The Three Planets. / Intellectual Powers. | or Vyahritis.| / | | / 1. The Soul. |1. Swar—Heaven. |1. Jupiter. / 2. The Mind. |2. Bhuvar—Sky. |2. Mercury. / 3. The Living Spirit. |3. Bhúr—Earth. |3. Venus. / | | / ------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------------- | | | IV. |V. |VI. |VII. | | | The Three Deities. |The Three Trees |The Three Rivers.|The Three Gods. | of Act. | | of Rest. | | | 1. Indra of heaven.|1. Dharma—Acts. |1. Satya—Goodness|1. Brahma of creation. 2. Váyu—Air ether. |2. Artha—Gains. |2. Rajas— |2. Vishnu sustentation. 3. Yama—Death or |3. Káma—Fruition.| Righteousness.|3. Siva dissolution. mortal state. | |3. Tamas—Vice. | | | | \-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------- \ | | \ VIII. |IX. |X. \ | |