Law or Principle by definition cannot change. Rules change so man’s laws are really rules and mental laws are really rules.
In the not distant future the world of today will depart. Those who are now claiming themselves to be “another generation” will be old people who will vanish from this world. Isn’t it time that we all wake up and catch on to what really is causing the reality we see of the world?
The phenomena of the world are caused by the imaginal acts of all humans or Man. We are told in the book of Acts that: “God is not far from each one of us, for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)
It means God and Man are one.
“Man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us and we in Him – William Blake
“The Eternal Body of Man is the imagination, and that is God Himself.” – William Blake
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein
“By Him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made,” (John 1:3)
By imagination all things were made and without imagination nothing was made.
For God, imagining creates, and God is man, so for Man imagining creates. There is no separation between God and Man . We are one. “God became as we are, that we may be as He is” [Wm. Blake, from “There Is No Natural Religion”], allowing Himself on this level to make all the mistakes in the world, to go berserk and to imagine any stupid thing in the world.
The following stories by William Butler Yeats are in his volume called “Good and Evil.” He said: “I was spending a vacation in Paris, and I got up early. I thought I would go out and get the morning paper before my host rose, and then I came through, and I saw the little maid laying the table for breakfast, and I told myself one of those long, stupid stories that one tells only to oneself.
“If something could happen which had not happened, I would have hurt my arm, and so I imagined myself with my arm in a sling. As I passed by, I had so completely imagined myself with my arm in a sling that I cast my imaginal act upon that sensitive child – the little girl who was simply preparing the breakfast table. When I returned with my paper, my hostess met me at the door, and she was all in a dither, inquiring about my arm, for she said that the little girl, the maid, had told her that Mr. Yeats came down with his arm in a sling. Then I remembered what I had done. I simply imagined that had I done what I had not done, I would have hurt my arm, and my arm would now be in a sling, so I cast my imaginal act so intensely upon that maid that she saw it as an actual fact.”
“Now,” he said, “just about the same time I thought intensely of a fellow student and a message I wanted to give him, but I did not wish it committed to paper. I wanted to tell it to him, but he was not present. Two days later I got a letter from this fellow student who was several hundred miles away, and just about the time that I had intensely thought of him and the message, I appeared, seemingly, in bodily form, as though in the flesh, in a large hotel where he was amidst a large crowd of people and he told me that he would like me to return after the crowd was gone, and then I vanished and returned that night at midnight and told him the message, which he told me in his letter.”
“Now,” he said, “I have no conscious knowledge of the projection. I only know that I intensely thought of my fellow student and the message I wanted to convey, and there I appeared in the midst of a huge crowd in a hotel several hundred miles away, and he was telling me to return later after the crowd dispersed, which I did at midnight, and told him the message.”
“Now,” he said, “I could tell you unnumbered stories of the power of imagination.” Then he tells the one of Joseph Blanco, which is a popular story and supposedly very, very true, of this student at Oxford University finding himself – well, without funds, so he could not continue his studies, so the day that he left college because he could not afford to continue he found no job, and he joined himself to a bunch of gypsies – traveling gypsies. And one day two students who knew him at college came upon him among the gypsies, and he made a sign not to be identified, and then came up afterwards, and he told them, “I’ll meet you at the inn, and then I will explain to you why you find me among this crowd.”
Well, they were curious and went to the inn, and when he came into the inn, he told them that they are not quite the vagabonds that people think they are. They have a secret that is not known at Oxford, “none of our professors know it. I know I never heard about it,” said he, “so no one knows it, but I will tell you what they have taught me. I have learned all that they have taught me so far, and I have improved upon it. Now to show you what I mean by it, I will leave you two fellows alone, and when I return I will tell you what you have discussed in my absence.”
So, when he came back, he told them in detail what they had discussed, everything they had discussed, and they were curious, and wondered why. He said, “You had no choice in the matter. I determined what you would discuss. My imagination led yours. Their story is all about imagination, and they, by the complete control of their own imagination, influence your behavior. That’s what I learned from them.”
Well, if God makes all things, then God must be the human imagination. If a man can so control his own imagination that he influences your behavior, and you think that you initiate what you do when it was the man in control of his own imagination that did it, then we understand what the poet meant:
“All things, by a law divine,
In one another’s being mingle.”
[Shelley, in “Love’s Philosophy”]
Imagination is that non-objective reality from which all objects pour forth, just like sudden fancy. Everything in the world comes out of one’s own wonderful human imagination, for that is God, And there is no other.
When you hear these stories from those who are not lying to you, you may not understand it, and reason will deny it. Well, if you have an experience, even though reason denies it, you can’t deny the experience. I know from experience that imagining creates reality. On this level, we are only learning. We are all students. We are simply in kindergarten.
“Be not deceived. God is not mocked.” (Galatians 6:7)
No one is getting away with anything! Misuse your talent, and you will reap it’s rewards You will go through the experience of having misused the talent that you received. The talent is the gift of God Himself. God actually became Man, that Man may become God.
This is the Law by which we live by. Learn to use your imagination lovingly on behalf of everyone in this world; because you are going to reap the fruit of it, whether you use it lovingly or unlovingly, you are going to reap the fruit of it.
God is not apart from Man .He can’t even be near you, because He is your own “I.” When you say, “I,” that is God! When you say, “I AM,” that’s God, His name forever and forever, and there is no other god. The minute you say, “Thou,” that’s a false god. If you address Him as, “You,” that’s a false god. The only God is “I AM.” “That is my name forever, and by this name I must be known throughout all generations.” (Exodus 3:15)
Do not misuse it.
You can set yourself a goal, any goal, and if you really know exactly what things would be like if you had realized it, and then enter into that state, and it will come to you in this world. At the moment, it seems only a shadow, just a shadow because you have not entered into the sketch. When you enter into the sketch, the sketch takes on a 3D reality to you. Now, leave it alone. In time it will flower and become what the world calls an objective reality. It was real the very moment that you entered it because you were the reality. “All things exist in the human imagination,” but all things. You name it, it exists in you, but it exists in you only as a shadow. It’s shadowy. But if you enter into the shadow and clothe yourself with it, it ceases to be a sketch, and it becomes a 3D reality just like the room you currently occupy.
Everything in this world comes from imagination yet Man forgets his imaginings. “Every natural effect has an imaginal Cause, and not A natural. A natural cause only seems; it is a Delusion … of the fading memory.” [Blake, from “Milton”]
Every imaginative man in this world is forever setting the cast and influencing the entire world of the passive, unimaginative. They are forever falling under the influence of those who are vivid in their imagination. They are reaping it, and you will understand the cry on the cross: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” for some vivid imagination has compelled them to act as they act.
Any shame or guilt goes to the author, not the actor. Man condemns the actor in the drama when really it is really the author, not the actor. And the author of the play is God! For God is your own wonderful human imagination. He is playing all the parts.
Your own beautiful imagination is God, and God is creating all the phenomena of the world. As Disraeli said, “Man is not the creature of circumstance; circumstances are the creatures of men.” We are creating them. When Man awakens, he is God, but before He wakes, he sure does he go beserko!
The day will come, He will completely awaken within man, and when He does, He will be governed by Love, and nothing but Love. Until we are completely governed by Love, what horrors we create in this world!
So, the whole vast objective world is created by the imaginal acts of Man . Everything now proven in the world was once only imagined. I don’t care what it is everything that is in this world is nothing more than the imaginal acts of men “pushed out”, good, bad or indifferent.
Take it seriously, and know that you, and you alone, are responsible for the phenomena in your world. If you are passive and not alert, you can be influenced because:“All things, by a law divine, In one another’s being mingle.” So you can be influenced. This is the law of Scripture. When we speak of the Law and the Promise, this is the Law:
Your imaginal acts are creating facts in the world. Imagining creates reality.
Be careful what you are imagining. When you are about to go to sleep, see that your mind is filled with lovely things, imaginal things, and drop off into sleep. “Do not let the sun go down upon your anger.” (Ephesians 4:26) Actually resolve it within yourself, revise it as you would wish it to be and sleep as though things were as you imagined them to be. Make them fantastic in your world. Do not let one day come to its end without revising and changing the imaginal acts of the day. Make it conform to your dream, to your ideal, and live in it just as though it were true.
The end is God. The origin of all is God. In the interval, we go berserk. We run around like chickens with their heads cut off. But if you know what you could do, start doing it. Don’t wait. You can be the man or woman that you would like to be, but wanting it is not going to do it.
You must be it.
You can’t just say, I would like to be it; you must assume that you are it, and sleep in the assumption that you are it, for the assumption, though at the moment denied by your senses, denied by everything around you, if persisted in will harden into fact. So, dare to assume that you are the man or the woman you want to be, and day after day live in that assumption as though it were true, and that assumption will become a reality in the world. Even if you go hungry, it doesn’t matter. No matter what happens, go hungry; but persist in the assumption, and that assumption will objectify itself and become a reality in your world.
Everyone will awaken and when he awakes he awakes in the only place where God ever awakes: he awakes in the skull of man, in Golgotha, the human skull. And when he awakes, he comes out of that skull, and it is God that is born, “born from above”.
Man, if he is in control of his own imagination, is in control of the reality and facts of his life. He is not the victim of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of himself. He creates them, if he knows what he is doing.
If he doesn’t know what he is doing and he is passive in this world, he can be influenced by the imagination of one who is in control of his imagination, for he doesn’t know what he is doing. Had he known, he wouldn’t have done it.
Literally, Imagining creates reality. Be careful what you imagine, because, “All things, by a law divine, In one another’s being mingle,” you are influencing everyone. As Yeats said:
“Having seen the operation of this law, we should never be certain it was not some woman treading the wine press who started that subtle change in men’s minds, or that the passion because of which so many countries were given to the sword did not begin in the mind of some shepherd boy, lighting up his eyes for a moment before it ran upon its way.”
Who knows who, this night, feels neglected, feels hurt, feels wrongfully accused, and who is sitting alone and “treading in the wine press,” who tomorrow will influence some awful thing. Some shepherd boy dreaming of some heroic future and thinking only in terms of war that could bring him the crown of a hero, he, while tending his sheep, is simply dreaming of being a hero, and using his talent, which is God, using his imagination in some destructive manner, even though he tends the sheep. Forgive him, he does not know what he is doing.
I tell you this to help you.
Know what you are telling yourself and imagining every moment of time because your imagining is creating reality.
The Law & The Promise 