Imagination

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Imagination in magick is neither fantasy nor fleeting thoughts. Along with Will, Imagination is an essential ingredient in performing magickal workings.

1 Imagination in Magick
2 Tarot and Imagination
3 Correspondences
- 3.1 Stones
4 Etymology
5 Translations

[edit] Imagination in Magick

E.E. Rehmus in The Magician's Dictionary notes that Will and Imagination are the two natural human powers for altering reality.

Émile Coué formulated four laws of Imagination and the Will:

When the will and the imagination are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
In the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square of the will.
When the will and the imagination are in agreement, one does not add to the other, but one is multiplied by the other.
The imagination can be directed.

In Flying Roll V (Thoughts on Imagination) Edward Berridge noted similar points to Coué:

Imagination creates a form on the Astral or some higher plane.
This form is as real and objective to beings on that plane, as our earthly surroundings are to us.
This form may have only a transient existence, productive of no important results; or it may be vitalised and used.
To practice magic, both the Imagination and the Will must be called into action.
The Imagination must precede the Will in order to produce the greatest possible effect.
The Will unaided sends forth nothing but the current or force.
The Imagination unaided can create an image and this image has an existence of varying duration; yet it can do nothing of importance.
When the Imagination creates an image and the Will directs and uses that image, marvellous magical effects may be obtained.

Roberto Assagioli's Star Diagram

Roberto Assagioli's Star Diagram shows the relationship between the Self and the Psychological functions.

[edit] Tarot and Imagination

The Magician - from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck

Paul Foster Case, the founder of Builders of the Adytum and a well known occultist, summed up the two principles of Will and Imagination in the symbolism of The Magician tarot card. Case wrote, "The primary manifestation of Spirit is Will, of which Attention - the wand - is the essence, and to which Memory - the wallet - is closely linked. Wisdom, having for its essence Imagination - the rose - is the secondary expression."

[edit] Correspondences

[edit] Stones

Amethyst, Aquamarine, Labradorite

[edit] Etymology

From the Indo-European Root aim- meaning copy. Origin: 1300–50; ME < L imāginātiōn- (s. of imāginātiō) fancy, equiv. to imāgināt(us) ptp. of imāginārī to imagine (imāgin-, s. of imāgō image + -ātus -ate) + -iōn- -ion