INTUITION
(Αlice Bailey, DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE -
VOLUME II. p. 415)
The disciple he
learns, finally, to substitute the intuition—with its swiftness and its
infallibility—for the slow and work of the mind, with its deviousness, its
illusions, its errors, its dogmatisms and its separative thinking and cultures.
(Αlice Bailey, GLAMOUR: A WORLD PROBLEM, p.
67)
That which is the
opposite pole of illusion is, as you well know, the intuition. The intuition is
that recognition of reality which becomes possible as glamour and illusion
disappear. An intuitive reaction to truth will take place when—along a
particular line of approach to truth—the disciple has succeeded in quieting the
thoughtform-making propensities of the mind, so that light can flow directly,
and without any deviation, from the higher spiritual worlds. The intuition can
begin to make its presence felt when glamour no longer grips the lower man, and
a man's low or high desires, interpreted emotionally or self- centredly, can no
longer come between his brain consciousness and the soul. Fleeting moments of
this high freedom come to all true aspirants at times, during their life
struggle. They have then an intuitive flash of understanding. The outline of
the future and the nature of truth sweeps momentarily through their
consciousness, and life is never again exactly the same thing. They have had
their guarantee that all struggle is warranted and will evoke its adequate
reward.
(Αlice Bailey, GLAMOUR: A WORLD PROBLEM, pp.
81-82)
The intuition is a
higher power than is the mind, and is a faculty latent in the Spiritual Triad;
it is the power of pure reason, an expression of the buddhic principle, and
lies beyond the world of the ego and of form. Only when a man is an initiate
can the exercise of the true intuition become normally possible. By that I mean
that the intuition will then be as easily operative as is the mind principle in
the case of an actively intelligent person. The intuition, however, will [Page 82] make its presence felt much earlier in
extremity or on urgent demand.
(Αlice Bailey, GLAMOUR: A WORLD PROBLEM, pp.
135-36)
The major point I
would seek to make here is that the intuition is the source or the bestower of
revelation. Through the intuition, progressive understanding of the ways of God
in the world and on behalf of humanity are [Page 136]
revealed; through the intuition, the transcendence and the immanence of God is
sequentially grasped and man can enter into that pure knowledge, that inspired
reason, which will enable him to comprehend not only the processes of nature in
its fivefold divine expression but also the underlying causes of these
processes, proving them effects and not initiatory events; through the
intuition man arrives at the experience of the kingdom of God, and discovers
the nature, the type of lives and of phenomena, and the characteristics of the
Sons of God as They come into manifestation. Through the intuition, some of the
plans and purposes working out through the manifested created worlds are
brought to his attention, and he is shown in what way he and the rest of
humanity can cooperate and hasten the divine purpose; through the intuition,
the laws of the spiritual life, which are the laws governing God Himself,
conditioning Shamballa, and guiding the Hierarchy, are brought to his notice
progressively and as he proves capable of appreciating them and working them.
(Αlice Bailey, GLAMOUR: A WORLD PROBLEM, pp.
181-182)
"the triple light
of the intuition." This light is formed by the blending of the light of
the personal self, focussed in the mind, the light of the soul, focussed in the
Angel, and the universal light which the Presence emits; this, when done with
facility through concentration and long practice, will produce two results:
a. There will suddenly
dawn upon the disciple's waiting mind (which still remains the agent of
reception) the answer to his problem, the clue to what is needed to bring
relief to humanity, the information desired which, when applied, will unlock
some door in the realm of science, psychology or religion. This door, when
opened, will bring relief or release to many. As before I have told you, the
intuition is never concerned [Page 182] with
individual problems or enquiries, as so many self-centred aspirants think. It
is purely impersonal and only applicable to humanity in a synthetic sense.
b. The "intruding
agent of light" (as the Old Commentary calls these adventuring intuitives)
is recognised as one to whom can be entrusted some revelation, some new
impartation of truth, some significant expansion from a seed of truth already
given to the race. He then sees a vision, hears a voice, registers a message,
or—highest form of all—he becomes a channel of power and light to the world, a
conscious Embodiment of divinity, or a Custodian of a divine principle. These
forms constitute true revelation, imparted or embodied; they are still rare but
will increasingly be developed in humanity.
(Αlice Bailey, GLAMOUR: A WORLD PROBLEM, pp.
2-3)
The intuition is not a
welling forth of love to people and, therefore, an understanding of them. Much
that is called the intuition is recognition of similarities and the possession
of a clear analytical mind. Intelligent people who have lived in the world for
some time and who have experienced much and who have contacted many other
people can usually sum up with facility the problems and dispositions of
others, provided they are interested. This they must not, however, confound
with the intuition.
The intuition has no
relation to psychism, either higher or lower; the seeing of a vision, the
hearing of the Voice of the Silence, a pleased reaction to teaching of any kind
does not infer the functioning of the intuition. It is not only the seeing of
symbols, for that is a special sort of perception and the capacity to tune in
on the Universal Mind upon that layer of Its activity which produces the
pattern-forms on which all etheric bodies are based. It is not intelligent
psychology, and a loving desire to help. That emanates from the interplay of a
personality, governed by a strong soul orientation, and the group-conscious
soul.
Intuition is the
synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul and it only
becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two
directions: towards [Page 3] the Monad, and
towards the integrated and, perhaps (even if only temporarily) coordinated and
at-oned personality. It is the first indication of a deeply subjective
unification which will find its consummation at the third initiation.
Intuition is a
comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning
there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness.
At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love which has no relation
to sentiment or to the affectional reaction but is, predominantly, in the
nature of an identification with all beings. Then is true compassion known;
then does criticism become impossible; then, only, is the divine germ seen as
latent in all forms.
Intuition is light
itself, and when it is functioning, the world is seen as light and the light
bodies of all forms become gradually apparent. This brings with it the ability
to contact the light centre in all forms, and thus again an essential
relationship is established and the sense of superiority and separateness
recedes into the background.
(Αlice Bailey, ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY, p. 516)
The intuition (as the
philosopher understands it) is the ability to arrive at knowledge through the
activity of some innate sense, apart from the reasoning or logical processes.
It comes into activity when the resources of the lower mind have been used,
explored and exhausted. Then, and then only, the true intuition begins to
function. It is the sense of synthesis, the ability to think in wholes, and to
touch the world of causes.
(Αlice Bailey, THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS,
p. 131)
Something of the
quality and the revelatory power of the intuition is known by all disciples; it
constitutes at times (from its very rarity) a major "spiritual
excitement." It produces effects and stimulation; it indicates future
receptivity to dimly sensed truths and is allied—if you could but realise
it—with the entire phenomena of prevision. A registration of some aspect of
intuitional understanding is an event of major importance in the life of the
disciple who is beginning to tread the Path to the Hierarchy. It provides
testimony, which he can recognise, of the existence of knowledges, wisdom and
significances of which the intelligentsia of humanity are not yet aware; it guarantees
to him the unfolding possibility of his own higher nature, a realisation of his
divine connections and the possibility of his ultimate highest spiritual
attainment;
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