The Revealing Word says that IMAGINATION is the faculty of mind that images and forms; the power to form and shape thought. Through this faculty, the formless takes form.
IMAGINATION is the full expression of divine mind expressing in us, the true image and likeness of God co-creating in, as and through us. In The Twelve Powers of Man, Charles Fillmore writes that “[m]an and the universe are a series of pictures in the Mind of Being. God made man in his image and likeness. Man in his turn is continually making and sending forth into his mind, his body, and the world about him living thought forms embodied and imbued with his whole character.”
Fillmore says “imagination uses the universal language of symbols to communicate the Will of God, and it is up to us as co-creators to give form to the ideas and visions. Heaven is the realm of ideas and potentials that are ours to claim and the earth is the realm where we form them into material things. When the form and substance are balanced, the idea will endure.”
Joseph represents Imagination in the Old Testament, the increase of endless supply. The disciple representing Imagination is Bartholomew, which means preparation of new growth, new development, new prospects, new seeds. Its location is in the middle of the forehead between the eyes.
The Biblical references for Imagination are Genesis 1:9 (” And God said ‘Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the ground appear'”); Genesis 37: 5-28, 39-46 (Joseph’s dreams); Daniel 2 (Nebuchadnezzar’s dream); Acts 9 (something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again); Acts 10:9-16 (Peter’s vision). The oils associated with Imagination are Aloes and Sandalwood.
IMAGINATION AND SANDALWOOD (Santalum album). The Hebrew root word for Sandalwood is Ahaliym (Wood Sticks); its resin rare and it is highly valued. Tree develops slowly over several hundred years. ALOES steam is distilled from bark. It opens the third eye, the seat of Imagination. Its chemical name is Sesquiterpenes, it has the highest on ORAC score.
Aloe-Sandalwood Oil removes negative programming from cells. Its anti-tumoral, anti-viral, immune stimulant, anti-depressant, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, astringent, calming, sedative, and tonic; calms and balances the emotions; it is also stimulating and grounding.
ANCIENT USES: Embalming, beautification, mood elevating, assistance in meditation.
MODERN USES: Cancer care, viral infections, skin care, enhances deep sleep, supportive of female and reproductive and endocrine systems; urinary tract infections, wound healing; awakens the latent life force during meditation.
BIBLE REFERENCES: Numbers 24:6 (Balaam blesses Israel, comparing her to Aloes planted by the Lord); Psalm 45:8 (“All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad”); Proverbs 7:17 (“I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon”).
Song of Solomon 4:14 (“Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes”); John 19:39 (“Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial”).