Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.

This is the stream of mental formation necessary for generating and nourishing fantasy. These are usually brought up from various storage systems, the retrieval obeying certain Order and structural codes, working through the millions of circuits in a micro-second, to activate the precise memory, at its biological site. What must be recognized is that in storage the image is not recognizable as it is, or will be, in the projected/display form. This sheer Cosmic Mystery is exquisitely documented in the science, ritual and art of Tantra. With enough research, we should also be able to find similar code-systems, which trace the image from its abstract (unrecognizable) form, to its projected form in the subjectively documented world of mundane visual image.

The stored form seems to be more concrete and fixed, the projected more dynamic and phenomenal.

The journey is from the representational, the named and labelled, to the abstract data patterns. There are further dimensions 'beyond' this particular polarity, that are without a visual quality, or base, so we have to be aware that even the more subtle, abstract forms, are not the end of the process.

This process is a deep cipher on the structure of the psyche itself. By psyche we mean the constellation of data that constitutes the idea of the self, viewed from the position of an ego. By imprinting the memory storage with a Yantra, the psyche is activated, and the calcifications of the ego base are dissolved, or at least temporarily dislodged. This process is well illustrated by the work of the Renaissance magus, Marsillio Ficino:

"Like all his magic, Ficino's use of talismans was a highly subjective and imaginative one. His magical practices, whether poetic and musical incantations, evolved into beautiful Renaissance forms. This use of magicsed images was really directed towards a conditioning of the imagination to receive celestial influences. His talismanic images, were intended to be held within, in the imagination of their user. He describes how an image drawn from astralised mythology could be printed inwardly on the mind with such force that when a person, with this imprint in his imagination, came out into the world of external appearances, these became unified through the power of the inner images, drawn from the higher world."

Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.

 Here we reminded again of the quote from Mookerjee:

"…the physics and metaphysics of the world are made to coincide with the psyche of the meditator."

As will be seen, this synchronicity of the psyche and " into the world of external appearances" which marks Ficino's work, is the fruit of research into visual metaphysics, and identical to the Yantra of Tantra Art.

Once again we are confronted with the fact that an Order / Sequence exists in both Eastern and Western procedures. In Ficino:

"Applied to the inner talismanic images of an occult memory system, this would mean that the magical power of such images would consist of their perfect proportion."

And:

"Renaissance theory of proportion was based on the 'universal harmony', the harmonious proportions of the world, the macrocosm, reflected in the body of man, the microcosm." Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.

In dealing with the visual structure of what is stored, abstractly, or what is projected, representationally, and the order of this sequence - the process can also be seen in terms of polarity, i.e. negative and positive electrical charges. But now we are dealing with the presumed fact, that the visual image can slide from its reservoir state, into the light of the conscious mind, and back again, according to the power of the perfect proportion of the activating image. From another view, it seems that if an image is so powerfully charged with universal proportion, it thus has a subversive quality, and once internalised, activates many sequences of visual data, and the displays thereof, as needs demand.

This, is known as the Law of Association, or analogy, and the mind of homo sapiens, is essentially an analogical organ.