Nothing less than the awakening of the imaginal will redeem the desacralization of our world. No posture, political program, or forceful means can do so. It means nothing less than turning the world inside-out, whereby our creativity is awakened from true inspiration. The imaginal is that faculty that can apprehend the archetypal realm as forms and images, the faculty that elevates our perception to direct gnosis. Imagination here is not fantasy, but a state of supernal vision.
Imaginal forms are epiphanies, theophanies.
Accordingly, the higher function of the imaginal as ephinany is the state wherein all myths and patterns of initiation take place. It is therefore through the refined and rarefied soul that guidance from the archetypal realm comes and from which the sacred emerges into life. Those who awaken this imaginal faculty are prophets, not as predictors of future events, but as oracles, speakers for the invisible archetypal powers. When the artist goes deep enough within to bring forth the work that originates from the Light of Cosmic Intelligence, he or she draws forth archetypal presences through tone, color and design, leading us to pure Platonic beauty. The awareness that the whole is in each part, as in the holographic model, enables us to find the timeless in time, to experience infinity in the finite.