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This RosicrucianTV presentation by Hugh McCague explores visualization, or mental creation, as one of the central Rosicrucian exercises for the Mastery of Life, meaning living in harmony with body, mind, environment and the totality of all. The session opens with an image of an early Rosicrucian Digest cover from December 1930 showing Rosicrucian Park, which Dr. H. Spencer Lewis described as a living reality visualized before it physically existed. McCague then leads a long guided meditation based on the booklet Liber 777, using breath work, an ascent through the solar system, galaxy and cosmos to the Celestial Sanctum, a visualization exercise, radiation of love and well-being, and a descent back. The presentation portion explains the schematic of mental processes: picturing on the screen of consciousness, releasing the image to the subconscious and cosmic mind, then applying the Law of Attraction and the Law of the Triangle while staying vigilant for impressions. He cites Michelangelo's unfinished works as an example of visualization, and notes that visualization can take seconds to minutes and be integrated into daily life.

Key points

  1. Visualization, or mental creation, is a central Rosicrucian exercise for the Mastery of Life, taught early in the monographs.
  2. Dr. H. Spencer Lewis described Rosicrucian Park as a living reality visualized before it physically manifested.
  3. The guided meditation uses neutral breaths with longer exhalations, an ascent to the Celestial Sanctum, and a descent.
  4. Visualization is pictured on the screen of consciousness, then released to the subconscious and cosmic mind.
  5. Practitioners should use all senses and emotions, not just visual imagery, to make the picture real and vital.
  6. After release, the Law of Attraction draws circumstances, while the Law of the Triangle requires vigilant follow-up action.
  7. Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures are cited as evidence he visualized the form already within the marble.
  8. Visualization can take about five seconds for simple items to five to ten minutes or longer for complex ones.

Transcript

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    welcome everyone it's great to be with you and learning with you again the topic of our presentation today is entitled the work of the co-creator visualization now visualization also called mental creation is one of the central rosicrucian exercises for the Mastery of life and by Mastery of life we mean living in harmony with all uh parts of our being our body our mind our environment and with the totality of all we'll be reviewing various aspects of the teachings on visualization it's something that's covered very thoroughly very early on in the rosicrucian monographs the weekly lessons it's an invaluable practice that we can make a habit in our life and can make our lives much more harmonious much more

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    enjoyable much more satisfying and assist us in being of service to others as is our common practice we'll start with the image to lead into a meditation and you'll be seeing now an image of an early rosicrucian Digest cover here from December 1930.

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    you see one of the early buildings on the rose rose Ocean Park the various Egyptian motifs such as the obelisks various symbolism and we see above the amoric building the rose cross radiating love and well-being out to the world is um The Rose cushion digest covers the world it says at the top there the part the idealism but also the live reality and visualization was very important is because very early on the first imperator for this cycle of activity chief executive officer nearly part of the 20th century Dr H Spencer Lewis he spoke of rosicution Park as something that was realized even when it looked to others as a plot of plot of land without buildings and they sometimes were puzzled but this is part of visualization is to actually be able to visualize something not only in terms of

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    the uh I the visual impression but also through all the senses and the underlying feeling and spiritual sense of it and created as something that's existing on the infinite plane that then can manifest on the on the finite plane or in progressions thereof and that's why it's I wanted to show you this uh picture of an early diagram of or illustration of rosicrucian park because it was a manifestation that it can be brought out and we'll draw these points in various ways but let's us apply visualization Now by first doing a meditation where we'll incorporate this special exercise so take in the inspiring scene of Rosa an early view of rosicrucian Park we see the roses in the foreground so beloved by rosicrucians because they have to do with the unfolding of our of our natures and the development of the Soul

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    personality within us so it can express itself increasingly you'll see the interlace triangles on the finite and the infinite plane and left and right sides of the pylons of the landmark building associated with the finite and infinite planes merging into manifestation and also the pentacle of the traditional Martinez order associated with the rosicrucians we see in the background as well the radio towers Dr a Spencer Lewis was highly skilled in electronics an early Forerunner in that area as well as the development of radio programs to broadcast um rosicrucian programs and related the great radiations of light from The Rosy cross will apply in our meditation which were based on the rosicution booklet Libre 777.

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    a main document for a particular rosicrucian method of meditation among among several others but it's a central one I'll give you later in the chat resources of that when Karen Pace them so this time I invite you to close your eyes I've been seeing the inspiring image of a manifestation of a visualization the rosicrucian park get comfortable in your chair or if you're situated such as lying down make sure you can breathe in an unencumbered way because breathing is a very important part of meditation it's part of the way that we go into the present we let go of regrets about the past or anxieties about the future we dwell in the present where we can see things more clearly and interpret the past more maturely

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    and embrace the future as we create it through visualization just enjoy the gentle Rhythm of the breath neither holding the inhalation or holding the exhalation do what rosicrucians described as neutral breasts I invite you though to spend a little more time in your exhalation when it's a little longer than the inhalation that helps clear all the toxins of the breath out as they've done their job coming in and it also that prolonged exhalation compared to the inhalation helps stimulate the vagus nerve a large nerve in our body running from the brain down to below the gut important communicator in a holy Temple that is our body when we have that relaxation response to the vagus nerve it also enables us to heal and become whole so much more easily this is a key in healing and

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    having well-being one of the many profound things that happens through breathing are we also known breathing very deeply associated with the way the universe was created through visualization as the word went forth just with our breaths in and out the world was created to the word or the breath just as we'll learn more about through metal creation shortly I need to take the Deep inner breaths and outer breasts I think you'll feel increasingly a sense of calmness building and with each escalation becoming more relaxed and calm feeling the peacefulness it's very soothing to the Holy Temple in our mind and body we get a little roughed up over the day with our challenges this is a time to have a mini retreat to be rejuvenated

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    and rebuilt and re-strengthened and be all the more Who We Are meant to be always and with each generation You may wish to also picture the increasing presence of the divine within the divine within our true nature also known by the rosicrucians as the master with him who would become increasingly identified with so always there to help us for sure and wise counsel in our lives our true guide it's its job to guide us through life in a perfect way the utter self needs to work with the inner self the outer self does not have that job

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    it's not capable to do such it has other important functions to do with production of the Holy Temple and its well-being as we continue to move deeper and deeper into the meditative State through the simple Act of the breath we can experience ourselves increasingly not as always a microcosm but as United with the macrocosm to the law of Correspondence or has become more and more sensitive to the Holy Temple of the body we become more and more sensitive to the Temple of the cosmos the Temple of the Divine and in that spirit let us begin our Ascent to the heights of the celestial sanctum following the booklet Libre 777

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    in its instructions to begin let's do a prayer and invocation for our purification which we initiated by their deep neutral breaths and feeling the vital life force tingling in our bodies and circulating enriching and renewing us let us stay together May the Divine Essence of the cosmic confuse my being and cleanse me of all impurities of mind and body but I may enter the celestial sanctum in communion and attuned in pureness and worthiness so might it be now use your imagination and your inner psychic faculties to picture yourself rising up from the room where you're situated

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    feel the enjoyment of the ascent rising up over the home where you dwell and now the neighborhood and see the streets and people going about their business radiate love and well-being back to them and feel your connection to them through the one soul links us all and keep rising up up over the city or town or geographic area where you dwell use as past Grand Master Robert E Daniels charge us to do use great inner spiritual Force to rise up and to ascend into the cosmic as we begin our Celestial sanctum periods keep arising up not only over the city or geographic area but see the entire state or Province where you dwell and see below the mountains or high hills the weather systems the trees and forests the waterways the

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    Lakes the rivers the oceans deserts whatever is applicable to your Province or state and keep arising up and take in now the entire country or Nation where you dwell see the way that it's laid out is various Geographic forms and great weather systems some spiraling see the beautiful beauty of the Sun or the night sky upon it and keep rising up over the continent where you dwell and now even the hemisphere Northern or Southern Hemisphere according to your situation but now take in the beautiful blue Jewel of the earth and see it revolving about its great access the North and South Poles you appreciate how things are in motion throughout the cosmos you're spinning and vibrating rosicrucians refer to this as the cosmic keyboard taking in the Great Sea of vibrations

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    through higher and higher octaves just like we see in octaves on a keyboard but extending greatly they're higher and higher rates of vibration that we attune through our various faculties of mind and body a psychic and mystical nature as well and now look up from the beautiful blue Jewel of the earth and see our greater home of our solar system see the great fiery ball of the Sun and the huge planet Jupiter in the remarkable and beautiful planet Saturn with its rings I mean some of the smaller planets for example Pluto and Venus and Mercury the red planet Mars see them also revolving about another center now the Sun

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    your beautiful elliptical orbits and see some of the moons such as the one around our Earth and some of the other planets going around their respective planets and since the beautiful Harmony and music of it all and now look up from our own solar system and see our much greater home continue to rise up tremendous Speed Way Beyond the speed of light as we transcend space and time using great inner spiritual Force that we draw on the strength of the divine within to do with ease and as we rise up past Myriad Stellar phenomena other stars some larger some bigger quasars and pulsars and binary Stars and black holes helping balance our local area in the universe and the universe itself

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    passed by nebulae and Interstellar gases and since the great Harmony and order the Music of the Spheres and since not only with the five physical senses you're associated with but also the psychic senses the sense the vibrations of all the octaves of the cosmic keyboard since the Beautiful music and through the colors and others stimuli the great vibrations and music the composers and musicians on Earth seek to imitate and follow and now we've experiencing an even greater Beauty the music and the harmony the Spheres and sense also now the great spiraling action of the Milky Way galaxy our great home about its Center

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    and pass out right from one of its great arms past Myriad stars and look back at our Milky Way galaxy and see its large-scale structure it's beautiful Harmony in order one of the great works of creation that is our home we look up and see other Stellar phenomena nebulae and galaxies they keep rising up higher and higher let us go straight up all the way up center of the cosmos now since also the local galaxies with our Milky Way galaxy they're all part of what astronomers and astrophysics call the cluster and all those galaxies are revolving about a great access since all the more of this stupendous action and harmony the laws of the cosmos about us

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    mirroring all those that take place within our Holy Temple the body and keep rising up and see more and more Milky Way galaxies like the Milky Way spiraling and other forms and shape see the inner Stellar gases see the great webs connecting galaxies and since not only individual galaxies but also their clusters passing out from our local cluster and see many many clusters all within which astronomers and ostravis called a super cluster you can see there are great motions of the Clusters about the central axis of the supercluster all these actions mirroring in different levels and senses the entirety of creation from the microscopic to the macroscope and keep rising up in the cosmos and pass out from our local super

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    cluster and see many many other galaxies and stars and planets and nebulae and since not only individual clusters within our local supercluster but many many super clusters they're all revolving about a great Cosmic axis of the cosmos for As We rise up by the law of Correspondence we go deeper and deeper within ourselves since this stupendous motion of the universe about its great Cosmic axis all the stars and planets and nebulae and Interstellar gases the clusters of galaxies the super clusters of galaxies all revolving about the great Cosmic axis the spoken of since ancient times by Mystics and philosophers zoom in on the great midpoint of the

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    cosmic axis about which the entirety revolves speak towards it and enjoy the exhilaration of the ascent or as we go higher and higher we go deeper and deeper within ourselves all the more able to commune with the cosmic through the cosmos and our inner nature and as you come closer to the Midway point the midpoint of the cosmic axis slow up and stop there at that great center point of the cosmos at the center the midpoint of the cosmic axis and look about and sense about you this stupendous Harmony and motion of the cosmos sense of this great Center also the center of your being and let us now

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    apply visualization to picture there the rosicutions referred to as the celestial sanctum are Celestial Sanctum You may wish to have it as a stupendous view all about you all the beauty and good that you see or there may be a particular scene in nature from back on Earth maybe a sacred grove of pine trees are a beautiful setting by a Lakeshore or seashore or maybe in a high heel or Mountain where you have an expansive View suggesting the cosmic View fill in your natural sacred site it's your Celestial sanctum or if you wish some built structure like a secretora or a Buddhist prayer hall or stupa or Christian Cathedral of basilica or a church or a Hindu mandir foreign cushion Park Grand Temple

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    fill in the sights and sounds and other stimuli may wish to picture incense Rising where you are to suggest the transmutation law and the raising of our Consciousness as we just as we raised ourselves to the heights of the celestial Sanctum You may wish to picture beautiful symbols there for example stained glass windows depicting rosicrucian laws and principles that we learn through our weekly lessons and how to master them and apply them for our life You may wish to picture all those on this teleconference call fellow Seekers visible invisible Masters present with you the officers of our order the grand Masters the imperator conducting a special convocation fill it in as you see fit as you're used to make it real make it vital give it an emotional charge this is an important part of metal creation and visualization we're speaking of today um

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    foreign once you've filled in your visualization release it Let It Go assured of its increased manifestation both inwardly and outwardly and dwell in peace profound the most profound form of Peace spoken of by the rosicrucians this dwell in the Deep Stillness of the center of your being at the center of the cosmos feel whatever there is to feel the notation is profound Act of non-avoidance be receptive to any important insights

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    or guidance but just keep returning back to the incoming breath and the outgoing breath boiling at the Stillness the heights of the celestial sink Joy the exhilaration of this place just let go surrender the outer nature to the inner nature if you find your mind wandering just lovingly and gently bring it back to the gentle Rhythm of the breath this deep still Center

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    the heights of the celestial Sanctum now fradders and Sorrows of participants as we continue to dwell at the heights of the celestial Sanctum the center of the cosmos the center of our being let us apply the exercise of visualization as part of this meditation

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    exercise for a second time let us visualize something that we cannot readily achieve my other means at this time maybe there's something important you're trying to bring into fruition in your life or maybe there's something you're worrying about now you could visualize about and proceed with confidence into taking care of it or maybe you have an interview or an important meeting with someone or important conversation that you're concerned about you could visualize it now picture it all this Vitality going well and there's a sharing of the Soul personalities or maybe there's something new that you wish to manifest in your life some valuable instrument oh home or place to live or mode of

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    transport I invite you now to picture something you'd like to visualize there's a value not only to yourself but to others it'll help you in self-mastery but also increase your capacity for service directly or indirectly if it's something that passes the test of your conscience as something viable to bring you to manifestation in the world start to visualize it now and do not be concerned if you find that you're not so good with visual imagery give it life and vitality not only through Visual imagery but it can also be incites but also sounds taste touch inner feeling give it a deep sense of purpose and value and seriousness something that is joyous something that is helpful something that is healing for oneself and others picture and sense

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    those things so when we say visualization we mean it very broadly I'll give you some time now to build up your picture make it real make it vital now soon we'll release our visualization make any last touches or adjustments that you wish to make feel the profound realism of it

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    you get something alive vibrating now prepare to release it Let It Go from the subconscious mind through the subconscious to the cosmic mind and we can say together if it pleases the cosmic it is done now let us continue our meditation assured that the manifestation be undertaken let us undertake a further spiritual operation of the rosicution or landmark let us conduct law during our period of meditation the application of metaphysical Aid let us radiate love and well-being from the center of our being to the divine within to all those who have petitioned our Grand Lodge Council of Solace

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    for healing and guidance and all those who may have petitioned our affiliate bodies of the resolution order for healing and guidance and all those that you know of who are in need of healing and guidance and all those sentient beings throughout the cosmos in need of healing guidance let us radiate love and well-being to them just like we saw in the Rosa cushion Digest cover the road ourselves as a rose cross radiating love and well-being out to all those in need now it's not an act of the outer self but one that did align within participates in through its infinite resources on the infinite plane like a great floodlight radiating out love well-being let it radiate out from the center of the cosmos where you dwell filling the cosmos for all in need just as you used great inner spiritual Force to rise up to the center of your being let the love and well-being now from the

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    divine within flow out but a tremendous rate for me you feel the exhilaration the tonic effect for yourself and all a certain point I think you'll find the radiations will speed up in your nose that they're being received and you may find that you're no longer consciously have to focus on the radiation it continues the conscious effort when that's the case let us dwell further from the heights of the celestial sanctum at this great Center as we radiate love and well-being as we continue to surrender

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    to Divine with him and attune with the cosmic I think you'll find the Holy Temple your body is charged with a vital life force in the tonic effect whereas we give so we receive but Allah Karma and the law of compensation or the law cause and effect without attending it we're given back let us continue to surrender through the law of humility to be open from the impressions of the cosmic mind and the divine within experience noise General State of Enlightenment but any Impressions that we need now or assured they may come out later in the day be clothed in impressions of the utter mind but we receive them now soon we'll begin our descent from the

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    heights of the celestial Sanctum foreign let us first formally close our period of radiation of love and well-being the work of the silent Council in conjunction with the Council of Solace and physical Aid by saying if it pleases the cosmic it is done so might it be now let us continue to dwell in the meditative state before our great descent You may wish to invoke the law of gratitude for this opportunity to be of service and our Birthright to attune with the cosmic and realize our true nature and grateful for all those who have guided us and who have loved us who have sacrificed for us

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    now let us begin for ours and swords and participants are descent from the height to the celestial Sanctum ever assured that the radiations of love and well-being will continue as a way of life as part of our mission in our Attunement with the cosmic will continue and be increasingly realized by us in self-mastery let us be passed at a great rate the superclusters of the galaxies see this stupendous Harmony and order as they revolve about the cosmic axis past Myriad stars and planets and nebulae great Interstellar gases and webs connecting the galaxies back to our super cluster within Etsy all the clusters of galaxies and the Myriad stars and galaxies and the great wonder and beauty of it all and then see in the distance the cluster that we dwell in an interest and all the galaxies within it spiraling

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    about or another motions and forms let's see in the distance the Milky Way galaxy our true home on the finite plane and enter into it it's great arm where we dwell past the Myriad Stars the quasars the pulsars black holes you see in the distance of our star of the Sun our solar system and home and zoom towards it to see the planet Earth the beautiful blue Jewel the Temple of the Earth we come to the hemisphere where we dwell and then the continent where we dwell and the great country or Nation in the province or state and see the city or geographic area we

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    dwell and let us stay together be the god of my heart sanctify this Attunement of self with the celestial sanctum so Mota be let us continue down into our city or geographic area to our neighborhood our home and dwelling and back to the room where we left off and where we're seated or lying down and feel ourselves enriched and nobled remade reborn rejuvenated and we're already a may wish to open our eyes and stretch and be ready for the next part of our presentation thank you for others and sores and participants now on our topic the work of the

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    co-creator for you are a co-creator we'll continue talking about the central rosicrucian exercise of visualization your practices that twice already and are Ascent to the heights of the celestial Sanctum now in thinking about what is realization it's helpful to keep in mind this uh simplified form of the rosicrucian schematic diagram of mental processes because it'll help us in understanding you see only description from the resolution manual you can think of visualization or mental creation as painting a picture on the screen of consciousness but that'll be particularly when we have our objective Consciousness where the objective mind dwells it takes in the sight the hearing the smelling the

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    tasting the feeling from the external world those move in to our subjective mind you realize through a subjective Consciousness depictured before us that imagery or that sense impressions and that's where our visualizing our mental creation first takes place and that's where Focus thought can then be released so we picture on a screen of our Consciousness what we want to create and the Mind's Eye gradually builds up the picture and when it's complete we dismiss it entirely we'd let it go we release it into the subconscious and from there it makes its way into the overarching cosmic mind so we transfer the image from the subjective mind to the subconscious mind to the overarching cosmic mind now the positive thoughts emitted or

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    transmitted to the cosmic is like often described as merely a letter when we put that milled letter into the mailbox we go about our regular duties our daily Affairs we let we let it be there we let it undergo its actions by the law of attraction conditions and situations or circumstances will be drawn to what we've made a living vital reality that we pictured so it can manifest in objective ways the image on the screen of Consciousness must become so realistic that it can be actualized gross the Christians talk about reality and actuality reality isn't our realization each of us has individual realizations or realities but there's a unified actuality the system in Law and Order vibration which we're about bringing our uh visualization into a into as a

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    manifestation that's why Dr H Spencer Lewis gets the Rose acushion Park is a living vital reality that had already existed simply a matter of of working to make it manifest now let's talk a little bit more about how it's done here you'll see a beautiful Tiffany stained glass window from the Heinz house wind window from 1895.

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    it's now on the Cleveland Museum of Art but as Tiffany glass is that beautiful and beautiful light and vitality I know many of you are greatly fond of Tiffany Glass similarly are our visualizations to the various senses not only sight need to be made living vital something of light and life and love to manifest like a Tiffany stained glass window which indeed were visualized in their own rights to do the practice is just as we did in our meditation exercise you don't necessarily have to do the exercise of visualization during meditation but it's often a great way to do it because one is then already in a noble State and ready to work and worship of the order one needs to sit comfortably in the exercise of visualization close the eyes if they're not already and picture using all the senses as applicable and able and don't be concerned if one sense you're not so

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    strong in like uh visually Imaging things use other senses the emotions in the mind to make it real and vital give it emotional strength to the picture in terms of its value and only for oneself but others that's important it needs to be a selflessness in this directly indirect or indirectly when the picture is filled in it's released to the subconscious mind and into the cosmic mind and say if it pleases the cosmic it is done so might it be similar to bees means so be it in Truth now one can also adjust that as some people like to also say um if it pleases the cosmic this or something better will manifest so Moto P it's up to you to see what works best for you now you go about your regular activities and let the Law of Attraction work having complete confidence that's very important complete confidence that it it

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    already exists on the infinite plane and it's a matter of manifestation on the finite plane or in graduations thereof with the finite infinite plane then we need to switch to being on the lookout vigilant for ideas and Impressions and actions needed for the Fulfillment of the mental creation we can think of this in terms of the law of the triangle the law of manifestation there's a visualization making it real and vital but then once we've released it we then have to work on we've applied law concentration there to make the visualization then we need to apply the law of concentration to be vigilant to see how we can fulfill it we now need to concentrate on the Fulfillment of that wish that desire that's distinct from the actual visualization act so we will not interfere with it in its action in the subconscious mind and the cosmic mind we then work to concentrate on its fulfillment in some strong sense we have a Russian

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    eat live and sleep it to some extent that needs to be done to make it real and vital because the Law of Attraction will reach out through the cosmic as our mind focuses you know people what people are saying on the lookout as you drive or walk is there some impression or something I saw maybe on a billboard and maybe a particular sound this particular site the way something looks and may have some association with what we visualize to help bring the pieces together you can think of visualization particularly when we visualize in something more complex like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle the visualization won't necessarily happen all at once suddenly if we do something simpler like we visualize something we've lost in finding it again yes but if we're pitching something more complex like a new career or something often it'll work that will come into individual pieces like a jigsaw puzzle something someone will say or give us a lead we'll follow up on it we need to be following up and acting our will but

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    we'll be piecing the picture together the individual pieces may not immediately suggest the overall image that we had of our new career for example just know it's related but as we piece it together there's that aha experience of saying ah now I see the picture like in a jigsaw puzzle as it comes together foreign we're acting according to our conscience very important we develop that in meditation and through our lessons in the resolution order situations such as the falling can aptly apply visualization or mental creation are you going for an interview visualize it do you need to find something that you've lost visualize finding it need to have a conversation with someone else that's challenging for your outer self visualize it going well uplifting for both of you

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    are you preparing for a presentation visualize it live it and then manifest it for the well-being of those who are your audience are you helping to organize an event visualize it You may wish like uh uh brother Edward Lee uh pass Grand Lodge officer to he often a visualizing event would visualize at the end people feeling uplifted things have gone well people deeply satisfied you can picture how you wish to visualize an event you may be various stages of it you wish to visualize it's up to you and see what's effective for you are you worrying about something visualize and proceed with confidence into the matter are you preparing an article a text or an important document visualize it and then manifest it you'll be helped and guided as you compose it

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    do you need a new home or dwelling visualize need a better way to commute to work visualize need to develop a particular virtue or new personal trait include visualization as part of the process working towards self-mastery visualize all along the way this is just some of the many ways that visualization can be applied and it's often quite helpful when we speak to other students who apply visualizations new and neat and ways that they apply visualization we may not have thought of and can incorporate in our own life in each case we release the visualization go about our regular activities but be vigilant for Impressions and insights related to the picture and shift into concentrating on the Fulfillment of the picture knowing that it already exists on the infinite plane and in actuality and only needs to manifest

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    on the finite plane in graduations thereof now related to this I want to show you a beautiful work by the renowned Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo we're fortunate in a way to have some of his incomplete works because we can see his working process quite remarkably he described this master of sculpture that he said that he did not um have to chip away at the rock as if there was nothing there he sensed that what his process was he was just removing the sculpture from The Rock in other words he had visualized it so well this is sometimes his comment about that

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    has often surprised our historians I thought well maybe he's speaking symbolically well in a way he is but I remember past Grand chaplain Edward or Ed Lee he's also earlier the head of the Department of Instruction at rosicrucian Park and a Grand Lodge officer mentioned that Leonardo was actually applying visualization he had visualized already his sculpture and he was bringing into manifestation because the the form of the sculpture was already in the block of marble he was nearly had had the skill and the different instruments to bring it out to bring it out to life we see that for example in his wonderful work of the biblical figure David preparing to do battle with Goliath which in part is an allegorical tale of the inner self confronting

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    the outer self the inner self and ourself need to work in harmony together the inner self is the true guide but you see here from the left to the right they're both both were in great blocks of marble but Michelangelo through his visualization was able to bring out the pre-existing sculpture within the marble through visualization and through visualization it was speaking literally in a correct way not only symbolically but let us consider a few more things about visualization before we conclude we wonder how thoroughly can visualization be incorporated into our lives yes visualization can be quite thoroughly integrated into our daily lives as a way of living it can become a habit

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    depending on the nature and degree of the complexity of what is visualized and how much review is needed with respect to being ethical and in good conscience the visualization exercise can take from about five seconds on a simpler item to about five to ten minutes or longer on a more complex item while the visualization exercise is done for one thing at a time it can be okay to have several visualizations concurrently underway in our life we can learn by practice what can be readily and effective handled by ourselves now it may be asked what has visualization or mental creation to do with meditation and mysticism well as we noted at the beginning of our presentation visualization could be done

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    as part of the meditation exercise we ascended to the heights of the celestial sanctum in that highly attuned state with the cosmic in some ways it can make a visualization even more effective as we release it into the cosmic visualization can also be done apart from meditation exercise meditation exercises we mentioned earlier but it can still partake of the meditative State as we attune with the cosmic because I think you'll find it as you visualize and make it real and vital you'll find as you release it particularly but also when you're building it up that you feel an increased Attunement with the cosmic in a way visualization has a strong element of meditation built into it already now visualizing um well it's done as part of some meditation exercises we can also think that from a mythical

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    perspective that we are co-creators with the cognic or Co workers with the cosmic mind or co-partners with the universal intelligence because in visualization we match the way that the universe is created and maintained by the divine we do that as a microcosm of the macrocosm a profound mystical principle just as the word went forth to form creation so we allow our mental creation to go forth in this manner we increasingly realize and identify ourselves with the divine in mystical Union now at this time before I have a concluding statement I'll ask Karen to uh paste in the chats and resources for you that you may wish to copy

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    now in conclusion we have continued to explore how rosicrucian exercises laws and principles increase our well-being and capacity for service the practice of mental creation or visualization is one of the central rosicrucian exercises along with meditation it is a practice that we can become very skilled at in our daily life and a habit that is invaluable for the Mastery of life thank you

Questions

AI-generated, and answered only from the transcript.

What does the speaker mean by Mastery of Life?

He defines it as living in harmony with all parts of our being, including our body, mind, environment, and the totality of all.

How is visualization described in terms of mental processes?

It is described as painting a picture on the screen of consciousness in the subjective mind, then releasing it through the subconscious to the cosmic mind.

What role does breathing play in the meditation?

Neutral breaths are used, with the exhalation a little longer than the inhalation, which the speaker says helps stimulate the vagus nerve and supports relaxation and healing.

What phrase is used when releasing a visualization?

Participants say together, if it pleases the cosmic it is done, and some prefer adding that this or something better will manifest.

How long can a visualization exercise take?

It can take from about five seconds for a simpler item to about five to ten minutes or longer for a more complex one.

What connection does the speaker draw between visualization and mysticism?

He says visualization makes us co-creators with the cosmic mind, matching how the universe is created and maintained, which supports mystical union with the divine.

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