Heart of the Architect

Our imagination and heart are like a vestibule—thoughts first enter the vestibule, then they move into the house. This whole world is like one house, and every image that lodges in our deepest thoughts must appear and become visible in the house. 

For instance, this house in which we are seated—the form of it first became visible in the heart of the architect, then this house came into being.
Imagination, daydreams and thoughts are the vestibule of this house. Whatever you see entering the vestibule, know that one day it will become visible in the house. And all these things, good and evil alike that you see in the world today, all first appeared in the vestibule before becoming visible here.
When God wishes to produce rare and wonderful things in this world; orchards, gardens, meadows and sciences, It first implants the desire and demand for them in our inward hearts. And so, everything you see in this world existed first in that inner world.
For instance, what you see in the dew also exists in the ocean, for this dew is from that ocean. In the same way this creation of heaven and earth, and all the other marvels, God implanted the desire for these in the spirits of the ancients, and so the world came into being accordingly.
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 36