Eight : Imagination, Reason, Memory

I’m not delaying. This is actually the amuse-bouche for the big knowledge drop on Friday (tomorrow) about splitting all of human knowledge into two categories - classic and romantic. I’m thinking Friday’s will be for big drops. Today’s quote is the final primer so that tomorrow you’ll know what to listen for…

“Hearing is the first stage of thinking. Almost instantly after the hearing comes the seeing. The inner voice stimulates the imaginative faculty of our intellect to see a picture or vision. This vision is a thought-form, which itself is a reflection in the mind of the emotional vibration or ‘voice’. We see this energy as a form of light. It is the light which illuminates the mind. Whether we call it light or sound depends on whether we are seeing it or hearing it; it is still the same energy.

Once we have heard this energy, which is life itself, we become aware of it and sensitive to it. Being aware of it we can see it; and once we see it, we can begin to understand it. In order to understand this light, we employ the other two aspects of the intellect - the reason and the memory - to help us create a clear picture in our mind. The intellect is that part of the mind which receives the light and reflects it, giving it a form (i.e. as a thought form) which can be analysed, compared and comprehended. The three major faculties of the intellect are the Imagination (i.e. conceptual faculty, related to the right-hand hemisphere of the brain), the Reason (i.e. the analytical faculty, related to the left-hand hemisphere of the brain), and Memory (related to the central brain ventricles and spine of the body). It is this process which is referred to as Illumination. It bestows upon us knowledge of truth - first in the form of intellectual knowledge, in the second degree of initiation, and secondly full or experiential knowledge, in the fourth degree of initiation.”

- from Arcadia by Peter Dawkins