REFLECTIONS ON VISUALISATION AND IMAGINATION - September 2017

The secret of all true meditation work in its earlier stages is the power to visualise.
Alice Bailey

Visualisation is literally the building of a bridge between the emotional or astral plane
and the mental level and is, therefore, a personality correspondence to the building of
the antahkarana.
Alice Bailey

Visualisation is a powerful agent in the evocation of the creative imagination.
Alice Bailey

Visualisation helps greatly in, and is one of the most suitable techniques for, the training of concentration in its first stages.
Roberto Assagioli

Another purpose of visualisation is to offer a starting point for or incentive to creative imagination....
Roberto Assagioli

We are influencing the coming years by our thoughts. The importance of thought in forming external environment, the value of
imagination in ultimately creating circumstances, and the use of visualizing the sort of life we aspire to have, are to be
impressed and re-impressed on a generation which has to escape from the materialistic outlook. By this twofold process of rising to
our divine source and controlling our intellectual ideas, we can begin to control our outward life in an extraordinary manner.
Paul Brunton

Without visualization there cannot be any striving to knowledge and creation. How can a spirit create if it is not convinced by ideation?
Heart

The notion of the imagination, magical intermediary between thought and being, incarnation of thought in image and presence
of the image in being, is a conception of the utmost importance, which plays a leading role in the philosophy of the Renaissance and which
we meet with again in the philosophy of Romanticism.
Alexandre Koyré

[In the] situation of esoterism in Islam and Christianity.... we encounter the idea that the Godhead possesses the power of Imagination,
and that by imagining the universe God created it; that He drew this universe from within Himself, from the eternal virtualities and
potencies of His own being; that there exists between the universe of pure spirit and the sensible world an intermediate world which is 
the idea of “Idea Images”, as the Sufis put it... “the world in which spirits are materialized and bodies spiritualized”.
Henry Corbin

Imagination and intuition are vital to our understanding. And though the usual popular opinion is that they are chiefly valuable to
poets and artists (that in “sensible” matters one should mistrust them), they are in fact equally vital in all the higher grades of science. Here
they play an increasingly important role, which supplements that of the “rational” intellect and its application to a specific problem.
Carl Jung