The Lexicon
How mind makes reality
Imagination
Imagination is the creative faculty by which mind forms an inner image and that image becomes the seed of outer fact. In this lineage it is not idle fancy but the very organ of creation: the place where the unseen is first conceived before it is given to the senses. To imagine a state is to begin occupying it, and the world is understood as the slow precipitation of what has already been pictured within.
Carried by 34 teachers · across 7 traditions · 15 quotes
The tradition treats the imagination as a real causal agent rather than a decorative one. Neville Goddard calls it the gateway of reality and the one true God; Blake names it the eternal world itself; Paracelsus and the alchemists work it as a force that shapes body and matter; the Sufi imaginal world of Ibn Arabi and Corbin gives it an ontological home between sense and intellect. To learn imagination is to learn the first movement of creation itself.
In their words
Imagination is the very gateway of reality.Neville Goddard
What is now proved was once only imagined.William Blake
The spirit is the master, imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material. Imagination is the power by which the will forms sidereal entities out of thoughts.Paracelsus
The active Imagination is the preeminent mirror, the epiphanic place of the Images of the archetypal world.Henry Corbin
All creative impulses spring from imagination.U.S. Andersen