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The artists who drew these spiritual diagrams in the first instance belong to far-off antiquity. They were mostly holy men, monks, or priests. Centuries ago, as they meditated on the mysteries of God, the universe, and man, they entered a state of mystical revelation and saw eternal truths, hidden realities, laws and forces of the universe. When they tried to communicate their intuitive knowledge to others, they felt guided to do so in the form of the symbolic pictures. Even today these visions sometimes arise of their own accord, offering themselves spontaneously to the mind's eye, when the intuition is trying to find another form of expression than the verbal one for what it knows or what it seeks to communicate.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 5 : Visualizations, Symbols > # 55