Intuition has a
fourfold power. A power of revelatory truth- seeing, a power
of inspiration or truth-hearing, a power of truth-touch or immediate
seizing of significance, which is akin to the ordinary nature
of its intervention in our mental intelligence, a power of true
and automatic discrimination of the orderly and exact relation
of truth to truth, - these are the fourfold potencies of Intuition.
Intuition can therefore perform all the action of reason, - including
the function of logical intelligence, which is to work out
the right relation of things and the right relation of idea with
idea, -but by its own superior process and with steps that do
not fail or falter. It takes up also and transforms into its
own substance not only the mind of thought, but the heart and
life and the sense and physical consciousness: already all these
have their own peculiar powers of intuition derivative from the
hidden Light; the pure power descending from above can assume
them all into itself and is- part to these deeper heart-perceptions
and life-perceptions and the divinations of the body a greater
integrality and perfection. It can thus change the whole consciousness
into the stuff of Intuition; for it brings its own greater radiant
movement into the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life-impulses,
the action of sense and sensation, the very workings of the body-
consciousness; it recasts them in the light and power of truth
and illumines their knowledge and their ignorance.
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