Consciousness is a mirror - it will reflect with gladness whatever field of information it is directed towards. But to access more complex information, it must first be able to envision and conceptualize it - to hold within the mind's eye its symbolic representation. Within the heavens, in the primordial ether, all things exist in potentiality - and they can be accessed through the imaginative function. Imagine your attention as the director of the mind, like a floodlight directed onto a field of all-knowing. Whatever it illuminates - it becomes, because it has no substance, or identity, of its own. Understand that, for the mind, information becomes accessible only when it becomes imaginable. The more sophisticated this function then - the more grandiose the contents it can access. So know this to be true - what is real is not the mind but that which is observed by the mind. That the mind and you, the observer, become real yourselves through that process of reflection, followed by self-reflection, or what we would call - philosophical refinement. Therefore, the level of advancement of any individual consciousness can be directly measured by the simple sentiment of vision, by its capacity to conjure symbolic imagery - and its ability to decipher grander truths and wisdom from said imagery. The first and perhaps most overlooked teaching of the first great magicians is such - for something to be regarded paralogical, or supernatural, it must follow this simple rule: "Something from nothing." This is why I teach that the priming of one's imagination and the capacity to hold vivid imagery within the inner vision is the first true gateway into spiritual practice. This is grade 1 of the great work. Grade 2 is akin to being able to impress change onto the mind-state at will through the holding of imagery in the mind, expanded onto the physical body. Grade 3 and 4 I have trouble summing up. But I will post meditations on each more robustly.  ![[IMG_9458.jpeg]]