Imagination

Imagination is the wizard's tool.

Imagination is the secret fire. Through imagination we see and create what can be.

Intelligence (illumination) testing has always tried to measure the real potential of the mind and has always fallen short. What these tests really try to measure, in Harold's opinion, is the ability of the mind's eye. If one has a strong enough ability of this sort (I'm not really talking about visualization or the phenomenon called photographic memory) one can do long division using that handy pad of paper and pencil inside the head and see the complete record of what is written down without any mistakes. Most of us are capable of this to some degree.

Savants in other ages have told stories of their laboratories inside their minds. Of course we know the story of how Beethoven went deaf and was still able to hear and see the orchestra performing his works as he wrote them.

Some, i.e. Robert Monroe, say the astral is full of "sheared off" spirits that are cut off from their bodies (removing the alchemists flame) because of an accident or misfortune that jarred them in a certain way freeing their "spirit" from their body, possibly severing the silver cord, or for Christians, removing the "three nails" that crucify the spirit to the body. The Monroe Institute is a very good resource about this sort of thing, though they don't see it quite the same way that Harold does. They're not occultists. They're more experiential (gnosis) scientists.