Theos-Talk Archives (June 1998 Message tt00208)

> From: "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval@nwc.net>
>     Re:  Intuition
>
> Dallas offers:
<snip>
> If we carefully examine our lives and thoughts we will soon find
> that we are the immortal and CHANGELESS THINKER.  We witness the
> passing scene as we might a play in which we participate -- the
> acts are the changing expressions of other conscious beings, and
> of our own consciousness. We can penetrate beyond and  all
> appearances to the core, the essence of the spiritual nature of
> any being, be it an "atom," a human, or a solar system.  It is a
> sense that probes the reason for its existence, for its presence,
> and for our present relation to it.   It assumes that the same
> Laws pertain to it as to ourselves and that there is a uniform
> balance, a dynamic harmony in nature which adjusts apparent
> disparities.
>
> Let us start with the idea that everything we see (externally) is
> the expression of an interior Spiritual presence.  All
> expressions are then from "within-outward." Our "inner sight"
> gives us access to anything in nature, a full comprehension of
> its value and purpose.  it is not a reasoning from premises to
> conclusions but a direct and instantaneous cognition of all  the
> facts and factors as well as their contingent expressions on all
> the planes of being.
>
> To perfect this divine faculty the aspirant can be neither
> attached to , nor disturbed by external stimuli or desires of any
> kind.  He applies a knowledge of what living the higher life
> implies.  A Master of Wisdom once wrote:  "The more unselfishly
> one works for his fellow men, and divests himself of the
> illusionary sense of personal isolation, the more he is free from
> Maya (illusion), and the nearer he approaches Divinity."
>
> In all Theosophic teaching there is an endeavor to raise the
> intuition by presenting universal principles, processes and
> analogies.  If those are recognized and applied each one can
> secure consistent answers to his questions.  "As above, so
> below."
>

Dallas,
What a wonderfully written summary!  Thank you very much.



Pam
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