Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00073)

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Re: Intuition


Dear Muni and Friends :


Theosophy teaches that intuition is the study of Divine
Knowledge -- facts that are universal and which everyone can
understand. it is WISDOM -- like a LAW OF NATURE. It is a
universal TRUTH, and therefore it belongs to all.

When the thousand voiced monster of DESIRE (Mara - Maya) is
subdued and under the firm control of the student, then the
Voice of the Universal ONE WISDOM can be heard. It answers from
within.

Desires obscure and blur the hearing of the TRUE. Like a fog
dispersed the sunlight of truth becomes manifest. But the TRUE
is universal. It is closest inside each of us. It is not "out
there."

Listen to the old storyteller

"In the land of the Wise Men there dwelt a young man. Many years
had he labored in a strange mine: the 'Mine of the Priceless
Gems'; hopefully, bravely, but fruitlessly. He had long known
that he who should find the Master Stone would be free, full of
peace, and dig no more, for nothing better could be found. He
also knew that he who found the stone should seek to share it
with all men.
"Many small stones had he found, but they were laid aside to be
used when the great stone was reached.
"Silently and steadily he worked on, until one gloomy day when
he had grown so weak that he could make but one more effort, that
effort was rewarded, and before him lay the great gem. Weary,
weak, but joyful, he gathered it into his bosom, and went forth
to share it with others; for he who told not of his gem, or
shared it not with all men, must lose the stone.
"Far he wandered, telling his wonderful story, the finding of the
Priceless Stone-the stone that made men greater, wiser, more
loving than all things living; the stone-- that no man could
keep, unless he gave it away.
"Far he wandered in his own country, seeking to tell his story
and give of the Stone to each one he met. Silently they listened,
gravely they meditated and gently they said to him: 'this is
Kali-Yuga, the Dark Age. Come to us a hundred thousand years from
now. Until then - the stone is not for us. It is Karma.'
"Far into another land he wandered, ever trying for the same end.
Gravely they listened, quietly they spoke: 'Peace be with you.
When the Lotus ceases to bloom and our Sacred River runs dry,
come to us. Until then we need not the stone.'
"Over the seas unto another land he went, for fully he believed
that there they would hear and share with him. The many days of
wandering and the long journey across the sea had made him thin
and ragged. He had not thought of this, but as he told his story
he was reminded of it and of many other things, for here the
people answered in many ways and not always gently.
"Some listened, for his story was new to them, but the gem was
uncut, and they wished it polished.
"Others paused and desired him to tell his story in their tents,
for that would make them exalted and famous, but they wanted not
the gem. As he did not belong to their tribe, it would bring
discredit upon them to receive anything from him.
"One paused to listen and desired some of the stone, but he
desired to use it to elevate his own position and assist him in
over-reaching his fellows in bartering and bargaining. The
Wanderer was unable to give any of the stone to such as this one.
"Another listened, but inasmuch as the Wanderer refused to make
the gem float in the air, he would have none of it.
"Another heard, but he already knew of a better stone, and was
sure he would find it, because he ate nothing but starlight and
moonbeams.
"Another could not receive any of the stone or listen to the
story, for the Wanderer was poor and ragged. Unless he was
dressed in purple and fine linens and told his story in words of
oil and honey, he could not be the possessor of the gem.
"Still another heard, but he knew it was not the gem. As the
Wanderer had been unsuccessful before, surely he could not have
found the stone. Even had he found it, he could not have the
proper judgment to divide it. So he wanted none of the stone.
"Near and far went the Wanderer. Still ever the same. Some wanted
it, but the stone was too hard, or not bright enough. He was not
of their own people, or was ignorant. He was too ragged and worn
to suit their ideas of a Master Gem holder, so they wanted none
of the stone.
"Saddened, aged and heart-sore, he wandered back to the land of
the Wise Men. To one of these he went, telling of his journeys
and that no man would share with him the magnificent stone, and
also of his sorrow that he too must lose it.
"'Be not troubled, my son,' said the Wise One, 'the stone is for
you, nor can you lose it. He who makes the effort to help his
fellow man is the rightful owner and still possesses the entire
stone, although he has shared it with all the world. To each and
every one to whom you have spoken, although they knew it not, you
have given one of the smaller stones which you first found. It is
enough. When the Master Stone is cut and polished, then is the
labor of the fortunate possessor ended. The long journeying and
weary wandering, the sorrow-laden heart and tear-dimmed eyes,
have cut and polished your gem. Behold, it is a white and a fair
stone!'
"Drawing it from his bosom, the Wanderer gazed into the wonderful
light of the stone while an expression of great peace stole over
his face. Holding the gem close to his bosom his eyelids closed
and he fell asleep, a wanderer no more."
RAMESES
[W Q J]
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Here are some philosophical expressions of intuition's
importance, to be thought about:


"...the faculty of intuition...may be defined as the Eye Of The
Soul." (ISIS I l6 ) Further:
"... intuition is the unerring guide of the seer." (ISIS I 433)
It is: "The inner light that shines on the candidate from his
own Soul." (WQJ Letters, p. 51) The power of the intuition is
"...to grasp in an instant a whole subject, premises and
conclusions, without stopping to reason...where, then is the
sub-conscious mind? channels? I think through the heart and
that the heart is the key to it all and that the brain is only
the servant of the heart...the small dwarf that sits at the
center." (WQJ Letters, p. 6)


"...the secret gnosis or the knowledge of Theosophy has 3
degrees--opinion, science and illumination... the 3rd. [is]
intuition. To the last, reason is subordinate; it is absolute
knowledge founded on the identification of the mind with the
object known."	(HPB Art I 45)


"...Every human being is born with the rudiment of the inner
sense called intuition which may be developed into what the
Scotch know as "second sight." All the great philosophers, who,
like Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus employed this faculty,
taught the doctrine... Iamblichus... Through it we are enabled to
attain union with the superior intelligences...to partaking the
higher life and peculiar powers of the heavenly ones."...That
which supports the faith of man in God and a spiritual life to
come is intuition; that divine outcome of our inner-self...Were
it not for this intuition, undying though often wavering because
so clogged with matter, human life would be a parody and humanity
a fraud. This ineradicable feeling of the presence of some one
outside and inside ourselves is one that no dogmatic
contradictions...can destroy in humanity...the boundlessness and
impersonality of the Deity." (Isis I 434-5)


"...concerning the faculty of intuition...Herbert Spencer
said..."there is a philosophical discipline which examines into
the conditions of sensuous or intuitional knowledge...the faculty
of apprehending the Infinite...in all things; a power
independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense
contradicted by sense and reason, but yet a very real power,
which has held its own from the beginning of the world...it alone
is able to overcome both sense and reason." (HPB Art. II 231-2)


"...the "Ego" in man is a Monad that has gathered to itself
innumerable experiences through aeons of time, slowly unfolding
its latent potencies through plane after plane of matter. It is
hence called the "eternal pilgrim." "The Manasic, or mind
principle, is cosmic and universal. It is the creator of all
forms, and the basis of all law in nature.

Not so with consciousness. Consciousness is a condition of the
monad as a result of embodiment in matter and the dwelling in a
physical form.

Self-consciousness, which from the animal plane looking upward is
the beginning of perfection, from the divine plane looking
downwards is the perfection of selfishness and the curse of
separateness. it is the "world of illusion" that man has created
for himself. "Maya is the perceptive faculty of every Ego which
considers itself a Unit, separate from and independent of the One
Infinite and Eternal Sat or 'be-ness'," (SD I 329) The "eternal
pilgrim" [Man] must therefore mount higher, and flee from the
plane of self-consciousness it has struggled so hard to reach."
(WQJ ART I 29)


"...Intelligence, Consciousness, and WILL; answering to the
Thought, Perception and Envisagement of Xenocrates...The Human
Soul with him [ Theophrastus, a Platonist ] is a compound of the
most spiritual properties of the Monad and the Duad, possessing
the highest properties of both." ISIS I xix


"(Instinct, intellect, reasoning, intuition...The Spirit is ONE
and the ROOT...inherent instinct--an unerring faculty which is
but that spark of the divine lurking in every particle of
...matter ...Man... [was] self-conscious, when Earth began. Man
has both instinct and intuition...it is to the Real
Man that intuition pertains." (F.P. p. 265)


[Q. "What is pantheistic intuition"]..."God is a circle the
center of which is everywhere and the circumference nowhere...the
eternal perpetual motion...the Ever-becoming...the ever
Existing..."
(S D II 545)


"The INFINITE cannot be known to our reason which can only
distinguish and define;--but we can always conceive the abstract
idea thereof thanks to that faculty higher than our
reason--intuition, or the spiritual instinct...Only the great
initiates who have the rare power of throwing themselves into
the state of Samadhi--which can be but imperfectly translated by
the word ecstasy, a state in which one ceases to be the
conditioned and personal "I," and becomes one with the ALL--only
those can boast of having been in contact with the infinite: but
no more than other mortals can they describe that state in
words..." (HPB Art I 432-3)


"... when we are on the plane of Knowledge we know without any
reasoning whatever...This is direct cognition--Occult Knowledge.
It is to be gained by the recognition and conscious use of the
powers of the Inner Self. It is what we call Intuition--the
acquired knowledge of the past. Occult Knowledge enables one
absolutely to determine what is the nature and essence of
anything regarded...Theosophy gives us the true basis for right
thinking...first, as the power of Concentration---(stability of
mind)...We need to change our fundamental Ideas our minds, our
modes of thought, our instruments. That is where the development
comes. We must concentrate from the basis of the steady in us,
the Perceiver, the Spirit, our real unchanging Immortal Self. We
cannot come to or connect with that Power in ourselves unless we
realize that all life is One, that all beings like ourselves are
moving on the same path..." F. P. p. 319


"A man's idea of God is that image of blinding light that he sees
reflected in the concave mirror of his own soul, and yet this is
not in very truth, God, but only His reflection. His glory is
there, but it is the light of his own Spirit that the man
sees...The clearer the mirror, the brighter will be the divine
image...3 degrees of knowledge--Thought, Perception, and
Envisagement (or knowledge by Intuition, [Xenocrates, holding to
the Pythagorean doctrine ]...Intuition with the heavens
themselves."	(Isis I xviii)


"Occult truth cannot be absorbed by a mind that is filled with
preconception, prejudice or suspicion. It is something to be
perceived by the intuition rather than by the reason; being by
nature spiritual not material. Some are so constituted as to be
incapable of acquiring knowledge by the exercise of the spiritual
faculty; e.g., the great majority of physicists. Such are slow
if not wholly incapable of grasping the ultimate truths behind
the phenomena of existence.

There are many such in the Society; and the body of the
discontented are recruited from their ranks. Such persons
readily persuade themselves that the later teachings received
from the same source as earlier ones are either false or have
been tampered with by chelas or even third parties. Suspicion
and in harmony are the natural result, the psychic
atmosphere...is thrown into confusion and the reaction upon the
stauncher students is very harmful...

We have been asked by a correspondent whether he should not "be
free to suspect some of the so-called precipitated letters as
being forgeries," ... All the so-called occult letters being
supported by identical proofs--they have all to stand or fall
together..." (HPB Art I 291-2)


"Allied to the physical half of man's nature is reason which
enables him to maintain his supremacy over the lower animals, and
to subjugate nature to his uses. Allied to his spiritual part is
his conscience, which will serve as his unerring guide through
the besetments of his senses; for conscience is that
instantaneous perception between right and wrong, which can only
be exercised by the spirit, which, being a portion of the Divine
Wisdom and Purity, is absolutely pure and wise. Its promptings
are independent of reason, and it can only manifest itself
clearly, when unhampered by the baser attractions of our dual
nature.

Reason being a faculty of our physical brain, one which is justly
defined as that of deducing inferences from premises and being
wholly dependent on the evidence of other senses, cannot be a
quality pertaining directly to our divine spirit. The latter
knows--hence, all reasoning which implies discussion and argument
would be useless...the ancient theurgists maintained that the
rational part of man's soul (spirit) never entered wholly into
the man's body, but only overshadowed him more or less through
the irrational or astral soul, which serves as an intermediary
agent, or a medium between spirit and body. The man who has
conquered matter sufficiently to receive the direct light from
his shining Augoeides, feels truth intuitionally; he could not
err in his judgment, notwithstanding all the sophisms suggested
by cold reason, for he is illuminated. "	(Isis I 305-6)


"The one Life permeates All. Here it may be added that
consciousness and intelligence also permeate All. These three
are inherent potentially everywhere...The differentiation which
results in individualization is not yet complete...although
consciousness and intelligence exist everywhere, all objects are
not conscious or intelligent. The latent potentiality when
developed to the stage of individualization by the Law of Cosmic
Evolution, separates the subject from the object, or rather the
subject falls into Upadhi [ vehicle or form ], and a state of
personal consciousness or intelligence is realized.

But the absolute consciousness and intelligence which has no
Upadhi cannot be conscious or intelligent, for there is no
duality, nothing to wake intelligence or to be conscious of.
Hence the Upanishads say that Parabrahm has no consciousness, no
intelligence, for these states can be cognized by us only on
account of our individualization, while we can have, from our
differentiated and personal state, no conception of the
undifferentiated, non-dualistic consciousness or intelligence.

If there were no consciousness or intelligence in Nature, it were
absurd to speak of the Law of Karma or every cause producing its
corresponding effect, the Mahatma, in one of the letters
published in the Occult World, says that matter is
indestructible, but inquires whether the modern Scientist can
tell why it is that Nature consciously prefers that matter should
remain indestructible under organic rather than inorganic
forms...And this is why selfishness, which is the result of a
strong sense of personality, is detrimental to spiritual
progress..." -- Damodar. K. Mavlankar
Theos. Articles & Notes, 52-3


I hope these will help,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Munise
Sent:	Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:05 AM
To:
Subject:	Re: lodge work

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Dear Katinka, Dallas, All:

As my connection to internet is very poor in these days. I
couldn't read the
whole post. What I can say about my post that:
Yes, what I think and hope that the outcome can become one of the
bricks in
the statement
"What is more can be additional supportive information and what
had been
constructed till that time (not even a brick missing). " of the
post.


How about this?
Can intuition be a subset of what is described here:

The Yoga Aphorisms
Interpreted by William Q. Judge

BOOK 1. -- CONCENTRATION

47. When Wisdom has been reached, through acquirement of the
non-deliberative mental state, there is spiritual clearness.

48. In that case, then, there is that Knowledge which is
absolutely free
from Error.

Best regards
Muni
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