Definition of the Intuition
From Bailey,
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 [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 center in all forms, and thus again an
essential relationship is established and the sense of superiority and
separateness recedes into the background.
Intuition, therefore, brings with its appearance three qualities:
These three words sum up the three qualities or aspects of the intuition and
can be covered by the word, universality, or the sense of universal Oneness.
Is that not something which all aspirants aim to achieve? And is it not
something that each of you, as individuals, needs in a peculiar sense? Where it
is present, there is an immediate decentralization of the dramatic
"I," of that capacity always to relate all happenings, all phenomena,
all group work to oneself as the center.
I cannot enlarge further upon the subject of Intuition. It is too vast a
matter, and too abstruse. All I can do is to put before you its three aspects
and then to urge upon you the need to submit to that training and to apply to
yourselves that discipline which will work out in your life as love, light and
understanding. When the theory is grasped and the right adjustments are made
and when the needed work is done, the personality then becomes magnetic, whilst
the brain cells around the pineal gland, which have hitherto been dormant,
become awakened and vibrant. The nucleus of every cell in the body is a point
of light, and when the light of the intuition is sensed, it is this cell-light
which will immediately respond. The continuance of the inflow of the light of
the intuition will draw forth, [6] esoterically speaking, into the light of day
every cell which is so constituted that it will respond.