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Prepared by Marie Ann Shea, TSM Chaplain |
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Nathanael (Bartholomew) represents the Power of Imagination. |
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How do we define imagination? |
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Some attributes of the Power of Imagination are: |
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Granularly speaking, we are dealing with the pituitary, a gland located immediately below the pineal, both of which are in the center of the head. Like an architect and a contractor, one draws it and the other builds it. |
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On the May Philip Purple Power page we
left Nathanael asking Philip "Can any thing good come out of
Nazareth?" (John 1:46) |
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Now for the rest of the story…. (John 1:43-51).
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In Mysteries of John by Charles Fillmore, he writes; The guileless innocence of the Nathanael state of mind causes the religious enthusiast to believe all things about Spirit and the world invisible. Exercised without Christ understanding , the imagination becomes delusory. It is the image maker in the psychic; the clairvoyant may be deceived by its conjuring power. In itself it is not error, but it may, like all the other faculties, be used in erroneous ways. When the Mind of Spirit uses it, as in the case of Jesus’ discerning Nathanael when he was under the fig tree, it is without guile, and in God’s communication with a person this faculty plays and important part.
Jesus discerned Nathanael's presence before he came into visibility. This would indicate that images of people and things are projected into the imaging Chamber of the mind and that by giving them attention one can understand their relations to outer things. Mind readers and clairvoyants and dreamers have developed this capacity to varying degree. Consciousness is what is concerned with soul unfoldment both primarily, and secondarily and all the way! Whoever understands this can interpret the symbols shown him or her in dreams and visions, but lack of understanding of this law makes one a psychic without discernment. With this spiritual faculty it is possible for a person to penetrate into the "fourth dimension" or what is usually called the "kingdom of the heavens" and to discern the trend of the spiritual forces. The angels of God are spiritual forces active in the Sons of God, the spiritually quickened.
The open and receptive and believing mind can see the things that take place in the Christ Mind, thus transcending the capacity of the unillumined natural person (Mysteries of John - C. Fillmore, pg. 22)
Here is an affirmation to help develop the imagination constructively
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"In the quietness and confidence of Spirit, I see myself as God sees me, His perfect image and likeness" (C. Fillmore). |
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Nathanael said to Philip "Can any thing good
come out of Nazareth?" ( Nazareth was considered a town of commonplace, if not
disreputable, people.) Philip replied, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming
to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile."
Nathanael asks Jesus "How do you know me? Jesus answered him, "Before Philip
called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Then Nathanael answered him,
"Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him,
"Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see
greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you
will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of
man."