Imagination

Our spirit places within us the image of its creations. We recognize that angel, filled with life, who sits upon the birth stool, bringing forth its works. That angel is flying in the heights, approaching us, appearing to our souls—behold, it comes! We welcome that angel with great peace and joy.

Orot Hakodesh I, p. 167

As long as you must wait for particular periods of time for the spirit of creativity to occur to you—at which opportunity you will generate ideas, contemplate them, express them and sing them—this is a sign that the light of your soul has not rested upon you. Your soul sings constantly, clothed in strength and beauty, surrounded by supernal sweetness. You must rise to the heights and meet your soul.

Orot Hakodesh I, pp. 172-3

In the seedbed of imagination lie the beginnings of intellectual awareness—in a constricted form. This form shines more and more, constantly spreading and developing. At last, from the clouds of imagination comes forth a content that is wise and refined. Intellectual awareness spreads in truth over all existence: over nature and its ramifications, as well as the many components that surround nature from without.

Orot Hakodesh I, p. 229

All truth and greatness exist in the treasure-house of imagination. It gradually becomes successively refined, as it passes through a number of conduits of the intellect, which reduce and purify it. We are summoned to appear in the light of our imagination, in the full splendor of its life-force, in the complete, precious, beautiful greatness of its holiness, on the world plane.

Orot Hakodesh I, p. 223