How We Grow Knowledge Within Our Imagination

Posted On October 21, 2025 / Written by Dr. Linda Gadbois

Flashes of Insight Formed as Intuition

Through my studies I came to realize the difference between words spoken or written as an explanation or description, and numbers which represent geometric principles that form the basis for symbolic imagery. While both methods have their own merit, and in the ultimate sense words act to form images in the imagination that are symbolic in nature, ideas conveyed primarily through an understanding of numbers, letters, and symbols are intrinsically dynamic, and once planted in the imagination, continue to reveal new insights that broaden our understanding. Higher knowledge can only be apprehended using the capacity of the mind associated with that level of consciousness. Higher knowledge requires the higher mind of the intellect, which is always original and creative and functions through reasoning and rational thought, to comprehend it. We only truly acquire what we can comprehend, and we can only comprehend what matches or can be discerned using our mental model. Symbols and numbers are the language of the higher mind, which is archetypal in nature, and is a form of living knowledge that must be interpreted by the individual in order to be understood.

Once we develop an intuitive understanding of the principles represented in sacred geometry, numbers, which are archetypal keys for deciphering words and lawful processes that can be readily observed in the natural world, and symbols that represent mental states and innate characteristics, we have the foundation necessary for comprehending a higher form of knowledge that’s born within the womb of our imagination. A symbol or concept that has been properly designed acts as a seed, which, once planted or impressed in the imagination, grows in its own way, based on how it’s adapted to the mental model of the individual contemplating it. When we concentrate on an archetypal idea with a desire to understand or learn more about it, our attention acts to stimulate it into an active state of expression, where it begins unfolding in the mind, both as a visual or symbolic unfolding, and as a stream of awareness that comes as a chain of associated ideas. It works almost exclusively through higher forms of intuition, called reasoning and realization. It unfolds or transpires through making new connections to correlated ideas incrementally, where the same process of contemplating an image forms a new association that comes as a flash of insight that shows you a whole new aspect or angle for the same idea, which expands it in terms of how it’s related to the greater whole.

Through a process of internal growth, which comes through a basic process of adapting a symbolic idea to your mental model, modifying it into a variation as a new possibility for that same idea, is how knowledge is grown within you. You come to know things you didn’t know before. You literally learn through a process that’s solely internal and mental in nature. Knowledge that comes “through you” from a higher level of consciousness acts to instantly upgrade your mental model because you acquire it through a direct experience that’s harmonious with your mental model. So, it’s not foreign or something you have to memorize while still not comprehending its significance. Because it grows within your mind from an archetypal seed that’s planted in the fertile ground of your imagination, it comes as an insight that rises naturally within your awareness, that’s completely harmonious and makes perfect sense to you. Through a harmonious integration, which occurs because a universal idea was formed into a unique variation as a natural aspect of your own mental sphere, it acts to instantly reorganize your whole mental model, upgrading it through an expanded awareness.

We can’t acquire higher knowledge, which is a form of living knowledge (fluid and shapeshifting) that’s purely archetypal and original in its conception, using our lower mind. While this knowledge comes “through” our lower mind, which converts it into mental imagery that’s associated with the material world it’s a part of, it originates on a higher level of the mind in a state of pure potential and probability. All higher knowledge is unformed and exists in a state of potential and only takes on a distinct form when being adapted to the individual mind, which shapes it into a congruent image of itself. It has no physical form until it’s conceived in the womb of our lower, subconscious mind, which shapes it out of its own substance, producing it as a personal offspring. The offspring produced is a unique idea for the same overall idea, formed as a combination of both the higher and the lower mind. The Father is the archetypal seed, the Mother the womb of creation that builds form out of her own substance, and the offspring is the combination of the two, formed into a single being and idea that possesses the combined traits of both parents.

The higher mind, which we call the conscious, self-aware, willing mind, doesn’t have a fixed form on its own plane, and is purely mental and universal in nature and essence. All ideas formed on this plane are like its creator, and are universal, archetypal, and thematic in nature. They exist on their own plane, parallel to this one, as a seed of possibility. While an idea can take on any number of shapes based on how its adapted to a particular mindset and set of circumstances, it remains true to the core idea and brings a particular “type of experience” through how it manifests. While the form a universal idea takes on is different based on how it’s adapted and modified by each individual mind, it still holds true to the same idea and sets the basis for producing the same type of experience. This is because ideas are archetypal in nature and serve as a prototype that can be used to fashion an infinite number of variations for the same thing.

While in our lower mind, which lacks intelligence and creativity in the most basic sense, we tend to focus almost exclusively on the outer shape and appearance of things, rather than their inner nature. Within the material mind universal ideas become translated into a fixed form, rather than remaining fluid and malleable. While in our lower mind as our source of reference, we’re taught what to think, told what to believe, and learn by memorizing and repeating other people’s ideas. Everyone is trained to form a similar image and interpretation for the same idea or word, forming a group consensus. We lack originality and fail to form our own ideas about things. We exist almost like a form of computer which simply calculates and performs based on how it’s been programmed. In this realm, the material reality formed by the subconscious mind, everything is perceived as good and bad, right and wrong, accurate or not accurate, and true or false. As we go to school, we’re given a particular curriculum that we have to study by memorizing it, rather than comprehending it, and then we’re given a test where our answers are right or wrong based on the curriculum we were required to memorize.

This teaches everybody the same basic ideas laid out as reading, writing, math, science, and history. Through these methods we’re taught to seek knowledge from others who know better than we do, that true and false and right and wrong are based on conforming to social norms, and that our imagination only breeds delusions that engage us in false realities. While the latter statement is true in the most basic sense, it’s usually due to us never being taught how to use our imagination as the womb for higher ideas to come into fruition. We don’t see our imagination as a doorway between planes that form a single dimension, but as a means of tuning into the astral forms inherent in the Earth’s atmosphere, mistaking them for divine beings of the higher realms. Many who focus on psychic abilities rather than intelligence and creativity mistake the astral realm for higher or inner planes of the archetypal realm of divine beings, which have no form on their own plane and exist in a pure state of potential, while also forming the root or primordial source for all material forms that take shape on the lower plane of the subconscious.

The Creative Faculty of the Imagination

Let me give you an example of how this transpires in terms of symbols and numbers forming the basis for attaining new forms of knowledge that propagate through the inner planes of your mind. This is just an example, and if you can’t follow along, simply realize the process involved and how it unfolds through a series of correspondences. Somehow an idea is impressed in your mind, where, though you understand its significance in the basic sense, it appears as a clue or base idea, which, by continuing to contemplate it, comes alive and begins making connections to other ideas that deepen and expand your awareness of all systems that form the chain of associated ideas. Through the work I was developing, I kept thinking about the significance of Tipher on the Tree of Life, and the 6 spheres it holds in balance as the basis for forming the 7^th sphere of the material world. I initiated the idea through an intuition of how it related to Metatron’s Cube, formed out of a central Monad, which multiplied to form 6 identical spheres that are closely packed together and encased around the center, which were then expanded outward to produce 6 outer spheres as a reflection of the 6 inner spheres on a greater level. The overall matrix is formed out of 2 interlaced triads that form a hexad. This could not only be replicated by reorienting the 2 Triads on the Tree, flipping the bottom Triad to face upwards, but could also be formed by utilizing the Supernal Triad, which in principle is considered singular, forming a 7 sphere structure that manifests as a single unit in an eighth sphere, which was formerly considered the 7th sphere.

This led to the thought of each aspect or sphere of the Triad containing the other 2 aspects within it (3×2=6), making each aspect of a Triad, also a Triad. In this sense, 3 Triads are actually 9 Triad’s (3×3=9), which form a single unit as a 10^th sphere comprised of 3 Triads. This led to a thought about the significance of 3, 6, and 9. Each Triad can be viewed as having a 3-fold, 6-fold, and 9-fold nature. I then associated this with the idea that any multiple of 9, results in 9 (9×2=18=9; 9×3=27=9; 9×4=36=9; etc.), as well as multiples of 6 and 3 both resulting in a 3, 6, 9 pattern (6×2=12=3; 6×3=18=9; 6×4=24=6, 6×5=30=3; etc.) and 3 (3×2=6; 3×3=9; 3×4=12=3; 3×5=15=6; 3×6=18=9; etc.). This made me think of the Solfeggio Frequencies presented as 9 sets of numbers that represent frequencies, in which each set is formed of 3 numbers, where the first number is moved to the back, forming 3 different combinations for the same 3 numbers, which, when added together, form a greater pattern of 3, 6, and 9. Each set of numbers produce master keys of 12, 15, and 18, which translate into master keys of 3, 6, 9.

This realization made me think of the Ennead – represented by the principle of 9, as a complete unit comprised of a 9-pointed star formed out of 3 Triads. Each set of numbers in the Solfeggio Frequencies forms a Triad in the Ennead’s overall structure, with the upright triangle, which forms the internal structure of the Monad (outer circle that contains them), comprised of the numbers 9-3-6, forming a stable structure. The other 2 triangles and sets of numbers, which are diametrically oriented to each other as the polar-twins of the upright Triad, form the 6-pointed pattern of activity that takes place within the stable structure of the greater sphere. This led me to think about the Cube, comprised of 6 faces that enclose an invisible center, as the volume contained within the cube, formed by 4 outer faces (North, East, South, and West), and 1 up and 1 down; with 8 corners (tripods Y), connected by 12 lines, the number of the sacred structure of the heavens (12 constellations and archetypes of the Zodiac), which enclose a 13^th aspect (central axis), the same as Metatron’s Cube.

The originating idea expands in a synchronized fashion forming a series of corresponding ideas and goes full circle, coming back to the originating idea. Knowledge, like life itself, is cyclical in nature, a principle represented by the number 8, and grows in spirals of interrelated ideas, all formed from the same nucleus. While I already had a basic understanding of each principle and system involved, it tied them together in a way that expanded my knowledge of each system involved. While we can break a greater system down into incremental aspects and specialized processes as a means of gaining a fundamental understanding of how each part works, which is necessary in forming the foundation necessary for greater understanding, ideas are grown within us in new ways by tying them back into the whole that birthed each one as an offspring. You must have a basic knowledge of universal principles that forms the basis for what causes you to “wonder” about something, where you know there’s more to it, and you penetrate it with your mind as a result.

You initiate this process, setting it in motion by setting an intention to acquire a greater understanding, and by thinking about what you already know, which forms a stream of thought that enters into a greater current of correlating ideas that take on a life of its own, and begins unfolding of its own volition, forming a dynamic chain of association that links it to every idea within your mental scope that’s of a corresponding nature. Through the new associations formed, sparks of insight come that instantly expand your understanding of each system. We form the seed for acquiring knowledge by breaking systems apart and studying each aspect as a separate entity or body of knowledge. Sacred geometry, numbers, letters, colors, archetypes of the zodiac, astrology, archetypal keys of the Tarot, symbols that represent character traits, qualities and states – and we grow them internally by how we recombine them with different aspects of the whole we extracted them from. We form new combinations of intrinsic aspects that produce new variations that give us deeper insights into what’s called the Absolute.

To do this, truly do it, you must take up a devoted study of all systems involved. You must use the higher mind of intelligence and reasoning to form the foundation necessary for growing knowledge within you that comes as a direct and intimate experience. Without a basic knowledge of universal laws, archetypal principles, mathematics, and symbolic metaphors, where you initiate and conduct the unfolding through intuition, you’re simply working out of your conditioning, superstition, and engaging in phantoms of the astral plane. These astral images are mere remnants formed out of the thoughts and memories of others shaped and maintained by the natural forces of the elements, forming illusions and hallucinations mistaken for divine beings and higher knowledge.

In the intimate sense of things, everything in our mental field is produced by us through the activity of complementary aspects of our own mind. When we center ourselves within our lower mind, becoming a passive receptor for what we imagine to be knowledge, we only take in what has been willed by others and exists in what’s called the “picture gallery” of Nature (astral light), where knowledge is perceived as being given to us by an external force or discarnate entity of some kind. We receive what we mistake for knowledge as ideas that come to us in “whole form”. This is a process commonly referred to as channeling, where you relinquish your will to allow ideas already formed by another to “come through you”. But all knowledge attained this way, which some refer to as being downloaded with information, most of which they either don’t remember or fully understand, isn’t true knowledge at all, it’s a product of the mental machinery of the Earth’s invisible plane. Higher knowledge is unformed and exists in a potential state on the higher plane of the conscious mind, that you draw in by polarizing yourself to it, and it’s birthed within you intuitively by taking on whatever form it has through a process of adaptation and modification formed as your own personal creation.

You grow true higher knowledge from within; you never acquire it in whole form as being given to you by an external source. All higher knowledge comes as a personal creation shaped out of a universal idea, where it’s adapted harmoniously to your current knowledge base, forming a unique variation that brings an intimate understanding of it. It takes shape through integration, and consequently acts to upgrade your knowledge base, not through a deeper understanding of a single idea, but a greater understanding of all ideas that make up your mental model. This same process can be undertaken through a form of study, where you concentrate on ideas intently for extended periods of time, contemplating them by picturing them in your mind as concepts or symbolic ideas that build an understanding of how they operate through and as universal laws, which can also be understood by observing the living processes inherent in the natural world.

Dr. Linda Gadbois

Transpersonal Psychologist, Mentor for Personal Transformation and Self-Mastery