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Imagination

January 29, 2018

La Loi d’Evolution des Âmes

Chapter 24, page 405

Imagination: the keys to taming a runaway horse

Imagination, a sounding board

Man himself, in his everyday mind, is a permanent television screen of which he is the only viewer, since the scene takes place in his fertile imagination.

Having licked the outside of the fruit, we will now go deep into the heart of everyone’s imagination, that secret garden which it is unwise to uncover without the express permission of the soul that owns it.

Each of us has this mysterious secret garden, which serves as a dumping ground for everything we dare not put on display.

Three levels of repression are found there:

1) the repression of recent events.

2) the repression of events from adolescence and childhood.

3) the repression of events lived in previous incarnations.

As regards the first level, namely the repression of recent events, let us analyse it as deeply as possible.

Recent events are like the scars left by the whip of life on the skin of a soul tortured by its imagination.

These scars have often healed badly and sometimes discharge into the field of waking consciousness the infectious pus of poorly accepted events, repressed, so to speak, into the back room of the unconscious without having been understood.

In one of the previous chapters, we analysed at length the mirror of the recent past and the keys to mastering and controlling it.

In this chapter, we will mainly study the role of the imagination as a sounding board that amplifies happy or unhappy events.

Our aim is to lead the human being to win serenity through unshakeable self-mastery.

True happiness can only be attained if human beings master their imagination, the cause of many downfalls and of many unfulfilled dreams, experienced as so many injustices on the part of an unjust god hovering in the sky.

Pilgrim of the secret garden of souls, steal quietly into your neighbour’s imagination.

He was struck by illness one or two years ago for not having known how to manage his human body and take every precaution to keep it in good health.

This illness, lived as a hell, was pushed back into the unconscious, into that secret garden where the imagination flourishes.

At the onset of his sudden illness, he thought he was lost, struck down by fate.

In his secret garden grew the fear of death, the dread of an uncertain future, the anguish of not having settled all his earthly concerns.

Family, memories of childhood and adolescence, memories of studies completed and of a place in the sun won by sheer willpower then become entangled, for when the future darkens, the past is adorned with the veil of an imaginary happiness, or else with the veil of resentment at always having been unjustly treated by fate.

Once the first days have been successfully passed, the soul again looks to the future with optimism and then tries to blot out of its memory all the very recent memories of the anguish of an unforeseen illness.

And so, through this ordinary example, every human being struck by an illness that arrives without warning plants in his secret garden the seeds of the fear of death, the dread of an uncertain future, the anguish of not having put himself right with his conscience.

The imagination then amplifies the event which, dramatic as it may have been, was nonetheless only a jolt imposed on a rag of flesh called the human body.

The imagination, starting at the slightest touch, blames the whole world indiscriminately for this grim blow of fate, and when the imagination goes off the rails, the body that is subject to it goes off the rails too and falls into the abyss, as surely as a horse maddened by pain throws itself into the ravine without noticing.

Let us continue with this example of sudden illness and observe the onlookers, the family of the loved one, who are suffering. They do not control their imagination and sink into gloom, as if their relative’s illness had struck them harder than him.

The imagination, rich in twists and turns, becomes a delirious mountain and then envisages only the worst.

Fear, anguish and doubt collide in the unsettled minds of the relatives at the sick person’s bedside. Heated discussions follow and all join together in crying out against the injustice of such a situation, calling everything into question.

Fortunately, the sick sometimes benefit from the support of their relatives’ positive imagination and so recover more quickly.

I have taken the example of illness, as I could have taken that of the premature death of a young child or the crime of a sadist who rapes a little girl. In every case the imagination plays a fundamental role, amplifying the recent event while darkening the future.

At this level man is very impulsive, very emotional; a prey to the delirium of his imagination, he feels the slightest wrong gesture as an offence, and what he would have borne without flinching before throws him into a black, almost murderous rage.

A man whose flesh is laid raw by a cruel event that touches him deeply becomes once more like the child abandoned by father and mother, screaming with fear in the bedroom of his destiny.

Who has not lived through this humanly understandable situation?

Who has not suffered agony at seeing his comrade, his best friend, his dearest relative, struck by illness?

Unless one has a heart of stone… But no one can cast a stone at those who could not bear the psychological ordeal imposed by fate.

To enter the Order of the Diamond of Unity, control of the imagination is essential. That is why severe psychological ordeals were imposed on the aspirants. Many fell on the reef of uncontrolled imagination.

A rare few survivors, after the alarm, succeeded in mastering their emotions and continuing their ascent towards a future cleared of the clouds of fear, doubt and anguish.

Let us return to our example of illness, the easiest to dissect since everyone has been, is or will one day be struck by it.

In this case the imagination relies on two components:

1) the sick person, whose repressed memories rise to the surface of consciousness in a jumble.

2) relatives and friends who, meaning well, sometimes surround the loved one stricken by fate with excessive caution.

The sounding board is in place for every situation to be inordinately magnified, and in the end the fear of one and all may then become a steel prison for the sick person, who is struggling with all his strength to pull through.

We are not trying to make anyone live through a nightmare or to stir up bad memories.

We are simply defining a situation, a dramatic theatre stage on which many cruel scenarios are played out.

Now that the scene is set, the drama has been played and time has passed, the memory of that difficult period sometimes comes to haunt the consciousness of the former patient and of the former onlookers of the drama.

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End of the extract from: LA LOI D’EVOLUTION DES AMES by LORD HAMSAH MANARAH

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