Yes, we can say that. However, we should also be careful not to fall for the 'painter fallacy'. The naive view of reality as being mental is often conceived as if MAL imagines the world. If we go along with this superficially, World Creation would look something like this: we imagine a blank conscious state, like a canvas (soul space). Then various levels of beings impress their activity in that canvas and we imagine that slowly our soul space begins to resemble our visual picture. Rocks appear, plants appear and so on. All of this is conceived as if the beings behold our visual canvas and just like a painter impress details in it through their activity.Güney27 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:58 pm Would it be correct to say that the world around us (outside our body) are images that manifest themselves through the activities of higher beings, just as our activity manifests itself in thoughts.
That would mean that our cosmos consists of mental activity, which presents itself differently depending on the depth.
It was said that higher beings cannot perceive the sensory world because they have no sensory organelles. But they do not live separately from it, but rather create it.
However, can the beings of the hierarchies see the world visually in imaginations?
This conception has so many problems that I won't even start enumerating them. To understand better how things stand we should try to imagine that when the etheric body is loosened we attain to a clearer experience of our body and life processes (the pleasant buzzing feeling of a part of the body 'going to sleep' is already such slight loosening, although not yet imbued with the cognitive element). We can sense how different parts of the brain, different organs of the body become reflective for our consciousness. This is all inner experience. It's not as if we see our organs in front of us, as we would in an anatomy textbook. Through our normal thinking we more or less know how the brain is experienced, how it is a reflector for our consciousness. When we develop new forms of thinking movements, we find out that these movements can find their reflection in other parts of the body. Thus for example, our liver can become a kind of brain. We can think there, although these thoughts no longer are experienced as sensory words or anything resembling intellect.
Even the eyes and visual parts of the brain are experienced differently. In a way, our consciousness can flow out through the eyes, as if tracing and merging with the floods of light. This is no longer our familiar visual experience but it is as if our brain extends and now we can think also with the light outside, its inner nature becomes reflective for our consciousness, just like the brain is.
Actually, newborns still live in such a more or less expanded state and only gradually contract in the bodily organs. This will make it clearer also how acquisition of language works. The babies' consciousness still lives in the sound ether and experiences not only how the ear organs and brain parts resonate with it but the outer sound ether is in a way also a screen of consciousness for them. When other human beings impress their activity in the ether, it is possible for the baby to grasp through actual Inspiration some of the meaning. Gradually, these inspired ideas become linked in the brain with the corresponding neural patterns. Then later we begin to live only with that which the brain reflects as consciousness without being able to follow the stimuli to the outside (as a side note, when we listen to someone very attentively and with admiration, the meaning that we grasp can also be received as a kind of Inspiration).
It is interesting that there are studies which show that babies are unable to learn language from artificial sound sources, such as TV:
https://www.wayfaringhumans.com/can-a-b ... tching-tv/
Of course, today's science believes that babies simply depend on visual cues from their parents and other subliminal sensations in order to make the associations between sound and meaning. Hopefully, if the spiritual depth of reality is taken seriously, it will become more and more clear that language is acquired in a much more spiritual way, it is indeed Inspired.
Clearly, it is not easy to imagine how such consciousness feels like, simply because it can't be patched up from our familiar sensory forms of perception. For one, an Angel can't be said to be 'here' in space and looking in 'that' direction. Its consciousness fills the space of human beings, animals, plants. They are like inner brain-organs for them. And if we try to imagine this in our familiar visual sense it will be very difficult because we have to approach a state that can be compared to seeing in all directions simultaneously. So an Angel can't speak about in front, behind, etc. in a spatial sense because it fills with consciousness all directions simultaneously. It can still speak about 'vertical' axis - that of the depth within and without the concentric circles that you mention but this doesn't coincide with any of the spatial axes.
So we see that we can grow into these domains only very gradually. There are so many things that have to be organized in our sheaths, so many novel inner movements that we have to acquire. In time we'll even be able to experience what it is to see in all directions simultaneously.
And to return to your question: these things should give a hint that higher beings experience reality in a different way. They don't have a flat visual picture of the world because they don't need it. They fill with their consciousness and experience from within, that which we experience only as a flat projection in our brain organ.