IMAGINATION
Cultivating the Invisible
To perceive the invisible (spiritual reality), one must deliberately withdraw attention from the senses and focus on a desired, invisible state, mentally…
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Out Of This World
The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit, renders us totally blind to what we otherwise could see. To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible, we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it until it has all the distinctness of reality. Earnest, concentrated thought focused in a particular direction shuts out other sensations and causes them to disappear. We have but to concentrate on the state desired in order to see it. The habit of withdrawing attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on the invisible develops our spiritual outlook and enables us to penetrate beyond the world of sense and to see that which is invisible. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen."—Romans 1:20. This vision is completely independent of the natural faculties. Open it and quicken it! Without it, these instructions are useless, for "the things of the spirit are spiritually discerned."
To perceive the invisible (spiritual reality), one must deliberately withdraw attention from the senses and focus on a desired, invisible state, mentally feeling it until it becomes real. This practice develops spiritual vision, which is independent of natural faculties.