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"The nature of the imagination is intuitively grasped by Man, but it has many facets which have remained hidden. The ability of the mind to picture any event or object whatever, even those which do not reflect the direct experience of the thinker, is a gift which has been given to Man from a very High Level. This gift has enabled Mankind to rise up from the evolutionary ladder in the spiritual sense, because He has always been able to form a mental picture of the step or stage next to be attained."
"The imagination works from above downwardly and has no base in the real world. The messages of the imagination come always from a Higher Plane of being." (The Higher Self)
"It is the imaginative gift that human Souls have which allows each One prior to a new birth into physical reality, to literally form and create the substance of Its new body for Itself. Although scientists believe that the substance of the fetus is derived wholly from the mother, this is not at all the case. The physical matter in the embyronic body is created, literally, out of The Aether by the imagination of The Soul (The Higher Self) intended to occupy the new vehicle."
"The additional intake of food and liquid which the mother's body requires is only for the purpose of nurturing and maintaining the new life which has been formed by imagination. If the mother's body were required to provide from itself all of the materials and substances necessary to form the fetus in the womb, the mother would not be able to consume sufficient quantities of sustenance for the job, and the result would be that the mother's body would expire."
"The imagination of Man has also led to great calamities, destruction, and death. His ability to picture events and circumstances first in The Aetheric Substance has created immense and destructive forms in The Aether which have persisted for many generations up to the present. These thought-forms, as they are called, do not of themselves spontaneously condense into the physical counterparts, but they are able to promote and foster the kind of circumstance or event which they represent."
"Thus, where one group of human beings hold in common an intense hatred for another group, a destructive thought-form of great power is created in The Aether which inexorably brings about the physical manifestation of that hate in the form of war or strife between the two groups. This is the meaning of the statement which has often been given, that thoughts are things and can hurt as well as help other human beings. This is also why it is not sufficient merely to refrain from harmful actions against others, but why it is essential to curb the destructive thoughts and impulses as well."
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