#74: There Is No Fiction

The outer picture of imaginal dramas enacted within you. If you will observe your imaginal activities and see that they do indeed produce corresponding outer effects, You will know there is no fiction, but Today's imaginal drama becomes tomorrow's fact. The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary cannot finally be maintained, for all existing things are in an intelligible sense imaginary.

Your physical world must therefore be essentially imaginal, since only imaginal activity can produce a physical effect. Causation is not physical, it is mental. Your mental states are the cause of the physical effects you experience. The drama of your life does not originate in the outer world of solid facts. It originates in your imagination. The real act of becoming takes place within your imagination and not without.

You have been taught to look upon the things round about you as the cause of your experience, but this is the great reversal of truth. The things round about you are the effects. They are the outpicturing of imaginal activities you have sustained, often without knowing you were sustaining them.

When you discover that causation is imaginal, you discover your responsibility as creator. You cannot escape it. You are always imagining, and what you imagine with feeling and persistence must appear. There is no fiction, because the imaginal act is the creative act. that nothing appears or continues in being by a power of its own. Events happen because imaginal activities created them, and they continue only so long as they receive support from imaginal activity.

Nothing continues in being, save what imagining supports. When you withdraw your imaginal support from any condition, that condition begins to dissolve. When you give your imaginal support to a new state, that state begins to appear. This is not a theory. It is the law of creation. You are free to imagine whatever you desire.

This freedom is not granted by any outer authority. It is your very nature. You are the imaginal being, through whom all your experience comes to pass. The future is your imagining in its creative mark. What you assume and feel as real in your imagination today is already moving toward you as the fact of tomorrow. The prophet within you is your own imagining. When you assume the end you desire and feel it as present fact.

You have told yourself before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe, and it comes to pass as you have interpreted it to yourself in imagination. There is no fiction in this process. The imaginal experience is the real experience. The physical experience is its necessary shadow. One precedes the other, but both are real in their own order.

You may look upon your present circumstances and feel they are fixed, unchangeable, beyond the reach of any imaginal act. This feeling is itself an imaginal activity, and it sustains the very conditions you deplore. There is no fiction. The condition you see is the effect of some imaginal activity you have sustained.

Change the imaginal activity, and the condition must change. You cannot change the outer by wrestling with the outer. You change the outer only by changing the imaginal activity which is its cause. Assume the feeling of the state you desire, feel it as present, persist in that feeling. The outer world has no choice but to conform, for it has no creative power of its own.

All creative power is in the imaginal act. The senses will present their evidence. They will tell you the desired state is not yet. But the senses are always bearing witness to past imaginal activity. They cannot see what you have just assumed in imagination. They are the servants of what has already been imaginally created. When you assume a new state and feel it real, you have created a new cause. The senses will in time be compelled to witness to this new cause.

Do not argue with the senses. Do not try to make them agree with your assumption before the assumption has had time to express itself. Simply persist in the imaginal experience. Feel it natural. Feel it as fact. There is no fiction in the creative world. What you feel there must appear here. You are not pretending when you imagine the state you desire. You are not indulging in idle fancy. You are performing the only creative act there is.

The feeling of the wish fulfilled is the spiritual sensation through which the imaginal act becomes vivid and effective. See the scene in your imagination. Hear the words you would hear if the state were already yours. Touch the things you would touch. Smell the air you would smell. Taste the satisfaction you would taste. Do this until the scene seems natural to you, until you feel at home in it.

Then you have entered the creative world where there is no fiction. The scene is real there. It is only a matter of time before it appears in the world of flesh.

Do not condition your desire. Do not wonder how it will come to pass. The ways of imagination are past finding out by the reasoning mind. Your concern is not with the means. Your concern is with the end. Assume the end. Feel yourself already in possession of the end. The means will appear as they are needed, and they will appear in ways you could not have devised. There is no fiction in the process. The end you assume determines the means that will serve it.

Trust the imaginal act completely. It knows its own way into expression. You may be tempted, when the senses deny your assumption, to believe that your imaginal act was unreal or ineffective. This temptation is itself an imaginal activity, and if you yield to it, you withdraw support from the very state you desire. There is no fiction.

The imaginal act does not fail. It may seem delayed, but delay is only the interval required for the imaginal activity to gather sufficient momentum to express itself fully in form. Persist. The interval is not empty, it is filled with the silent working of the creative power you have set in motion. Do not look back. Do not measure progress by the evidence of the senses. Measure it by the persistence of your imaginal experience.

As long as you sustain the feeling of the wish fulfilled, the creative act continues. There is no fiction, it cannot be otherwise. Your world is your consciousness objectified. This is not a philosophical statement, it is a statement of fact. Every detail of your experience, from the smallest to the greatest, is the outpicting of some imaginal activity you have sustained. When you see this clearly, you cease to blame outer conditions or other people for your experience.

You see that you are the sole creator of the play in which you move. You may not have known you are creating. You may have imagined unconsciously sustaining states of fear, lack, or limitation, without realizing what you were doing, but now you know.

There is no fiction. You are imagining, and what you imagine is becoming your world. The great liberation comes when you accept this completely. You are no longer the victim of circumstance. You are the author of circumstance. You may change any circumstance by changing the imaginal activity which produced it. You do not argue with the circumstance. You do not fight it.

You simply assume the imaginal state you desire and feel it real. The old circumstance, having lost its imaginal support, begins to fade. The new circumstance, having received imaginal support, begins to appear. This is the law. There is no fiction in it. It operates whether you are aware of it or not. When you become aware of it, you become a conscious creator.

Tonight, when you close your eyes, do not look upon your imaginal activity as something apart from reality. It is reality in its creative form. The world you will see when you open your eyes tomorrow morning will be the result of the imaginal activity you sustain tonight. Choose that activity wisely, assume the state you desire, feel it as present fact. Do not think of it as something you will have one day. Feel it as something you have now. Walk in the feeling of it.

Speak from the feeling of it, let the feeling so fill your mind that when you fall asleep you fall asleep in the assumption that it is already so. There is no fiction in this. The assumption is the reality. The sleep in the assumption is the bridge over which the imaginal act crosses into visible form. You may have thought that some desires were too great, too far beyond your present condition to be realized.

This thought is itself an imaginal activity that sustains the sense of separation. There is no fiction. Whatever you can imagine with the feeling of reality is possible to you, for the imaginal act makes it possible. The size of the desire does not matter. The feeling of reality is what matters. A small desire assumed with feeling will express itself. A great desire assumed with feeling will express itself. The creative power does not measure desires, it only responds to the imaginal act.

Assume greatly, feel greatly. There is no fiction to limit you. The world you see is the mirror of your sustained imaginal activity.

Change the activity and the mirror must change. You cannot change the mirror by polishing it. You change it by changing what it reflects. This is why all true change begins within. There is no other place for it to begin. The outer is faithful. It reflects exactly what you have imaginally assumed and felt. When you complain of the outer, you are complaining of your own imaginal activity. When you praise the outer, you are praising your own imaginal activity,

There is no fiction. The outer is always the faithful servant of the inner. You stand tonight at a crossroads. You may continue to imagine as you have imagined in the past, and your world will continue as it has continued. Or, you may assume a new imaginal activity, feel a new state as real, and watch your world conform to this new activity. There is no fiction in either choice. Both are creative. Both will express themselves.

The only question is what you will choose to imagine. Choose the state that gives you joy. Choose the state that fulfills your desire. Choose it with feeling, persist in it with conviction, and know that what you have chosen in the creative world must appear in the world of form. There is no fiction. This is the law, and the law is sure. When you rise in the morning, carry the feeling of your imaginal experience with you into the day. Do not let the evidence of the senses shake you from it.

The senses are reporting what was. You are living from what is now imaginally created. Walk in the dignity of the state assumed. Speak from the consciousness of the state assumed. Act from the feeling of the state assumed. The day will arrange itself around this feeling. People will appear, circumstances will arise, events will occur, all to serve the imaginal activity you have set in motion. There is no fiction.

The creative world is orderly, exact, and faithful. What you have assumed it will bring to pass. This is the great secret, revealed in every age to those who would hear it. There is no fiction. The imaginal experience is real in the creative world. It alone creates, it alone sustains, it alone transforms. You are that imaginal being. You are the one in whom the creative power dwells.

Use it consciously, use it feelingly, use it for the highest you can conceive, and your life will become the visible expression of the imaginal glory you have assumed. For there is no fiction, all is real in the creative world, and all comes to pass in the world you see. This night assume the end, feel it done, and know that it is already so.