Imagination
Imagination: A Gateway to Creative Manifestation (video)
IMAGINATION: The ability to image, picture, conceptualize, envision, and dream. The disciple BARTHOLOMEW represents positive thoughts held in mind. The month is JUNE, the corresponding color is LIGHT BLUE and the location is between the eyes.
The universal mind of God communicates to us or imparts its ideas to us through a universal language–the language of pictures and symbols. Frequently when our minds catch a new idea, when it formulates thought images, we have trouble translating the idea into words. How many times have you had a flash of insight about something and then when you began to try to explain it to someone else you couldn’t?
Our imagination is one of the spiritual faculties we use to create. Yet it all depends on the right use of our mind powers. All success, prosperity, happiness, health and peace, our right relationship to the universal good which already belongs to us, is the result of the right use of our mental and spiritual faculties. On the other hand, every problem, every failure, every moment of error or suffering is the result of the wrong use of the mind. Our minds are always at work. Our imagination is constantly at work. Through our choice in how we use our minds, we determine the course of our lives.
Imagination is our inner magician. In the language of pictures our imagination conceives ideas. And if we concentrate on those ideas, and hold onto those ideas with all of our will, our belief and faith, the idea itself will take form. Actually, this is a form of prayer. It is how we place a request with the great Universal Mind.
The definition is: “Imagination is the power of reproducing images stored in the memory OR the creation of new images different from any known by experience.” Through our imagination, God or Universal Mind creates through us – communicating new pictures and ideas–different from any we have known by experience. It is through the creation of new images that mankind has progressed. Imagination has brought us songs, symphonies, poems, plays, stories, inventions, scientific discoveries, religions, business enterprises and political movements.
It is the creation aspect of our imagination that helps us to accept God’s abundance in all of its forms. It is this creative aspect of our imagination that guides us into new careers, brings new houses and cars into our lives, helps us to find the love of our life, and heals us when we are sick.
In Unity we are taught “to see it right, not to set it right.” That is how the creative power of our mind works – but sometimes that is hard when ‘out here’ we have an appearance that is so big we can hardly see beyond it – an appearance that might come in the form of an illness, a diagnosis.
Every single thing we know today, every one of our achievements, every blessing, is part of our life because someone came to the edge of knowledge and when they were told that was as far as they could go, they wouldn’t settle. They answered, “Perhaps, but what if?”
The everlasting truth is: What we conceive – what we imagine with faith, love and strength will come about because we always get what we imagine if we really believe. The everlasting truth is that we can rely on the spiritual understanding that we are one with God, and that with God we can step up and step out of any situation we might find ourselves in.