What is the true meaning of inspiration?

I say picture, and I mean picture.

Every thought in the human mind is like a picture. 

It is an assemblage of impressions, which convey to the understanding what is really a picture perceptible to the spirit. 

To the spiritual eye that can see the soul, it is very easy to tell what that soul contains, for all past knowledge and thoughts are imprinted upon it as clearly as are pictures upon the pages of a book of illustrations. 

It is when an individual spirit looks into his own mind and discovers a picture long-overlooked though preserved there, that you say, in worldly parlance, he remembers something, which he had forgotten! 

In conveying a new idea it is only necessary to reveal a picture from the impressions living in the inspirer's mind to the receiver's spiritual perceptions, then excite the intelligence of the receiver to go to work and reproduce that picture in his own mind.

Without inspiration and other revelations—or influxes of spiritual nourishment, there could be no progression toward divinity.

Inspiration is truth.

It springs from the absolute fount of what is.

All may receive inspiration to a greater or less degree, and always to a growing degree who with earnest desire seek to develop in the knowledge and love of goodness and truth.

It is not a gift reserved for the few but falls free as the refulgent rays of the morning sun to quicken the spirit of life in every organised soul whose unlimited destiny is life everlasting.

Leaflets of Truth, or Light From the Shadow Land