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INTUITION 
 
 ITS OFFICE, ITS LAWS, ITS 
 
 PSYCHOLOGY, ITS TRIUMPHS 
 
 AND ITS DIVINITY 
 
 BY 
 
 WALTER NEWELL WESTON, LLM. 
 
 " When thou goest, it shall lead thee; 
 When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; 
 And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee." 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 Instances of Intuition 
 
 Practical examples of intuition in business, finance, 
 marriage, history, etc. — Women more intuitive than men. 
 — Seeming contest between intuition and reason. — ^Ver- 
 satility and painstaking attention to details on part of 
 intuition. — Faithful in extremis. — [Page 17] 
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 Intuition and Reason 
 
 Popular interest in intuition. — Supremacy of love. — 
 Duality of everyone's nature and remedy therefor. — 
 Divinity of intuition. — Distinctions between intuition 
 and reason. — Intuition the short cut. — Indispensable to 
 all who do original work. — The key of true genius. — ^Edison, 
 Burbank, etc. — Many unconsciously intuitive. — Spon- 
 taneity of children. — 
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 Intuition and Conscience 
 
 Adaptability of intuition. — How to know what intui- 
 tion is. — What is conscience? — Its limitations as com- 
 pared with intuition. — Conscience argumentative, intui- 
 tion inspirational. — Laws of intuition. — Simplicity.^ 
 Conscience based on precedent, intuition on inherent 
 wisdom. — Criminals sometimes intuitive even though 
 conscienceless. — Dangers arising from domination of 
 
6 CONTENTS 
 
 conscience without intuition. — The " New England con- 
 science" and its remedy. — How to cultivate conscience. — 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 Intuition and Consciousness 
 
 Individual, collective, sex, prosperity, absolute, cosmic 
 and other phases of consciousness. — The personal ego. — 
 Bodily center of intuitive mentation. — Association of 
 intuition with love. — Inability of reason to understand 
 intuition. — Man's experiences the effect of states of 
 consciousness. — Cosmic consciousness the highest goal 
 of human attainment. — Spiritual truth discerned spir- 
 itually, but not discerned without awakened spiritual 
 faculties. — Action and reaction of thought. — Many 
 states of consciousness merely forms of bondage, — How 
 to attain freedom. — Why people seek a spiritual inter- 
 pretation of the times. — Bondage of law consciousness 
 generally. — Attainabihty of consciousness of freedom 
 from sin, sickness, poverty and ultimate death.— 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 Intuition and Grace 
 
 Secret of unfoldment from lower to higher realms of 
 consciousness. — How to become free from karma — Grace 
 the supreme gift. — Its marvelous riches intuitively dis- 
 cerned. — Why Jesus Christ did not condemn those who 
 betrayed and assassinated him. — Intuitive perception of 
 realm of endless joy, health, peace and supply. — Marvels 
 of world within when intuitively awake. — BibHcal author- 
 ity. — Paul dehvered from "thorn in flesh" through grace. 
 — Identity of intuition, grace, forgiveness, love. — Grace 
 a mystical realm until intuitively discerned. — " What is 
 truth?" — Spiritual correspondence to law of vacuum.— 
 IPage 931 
 
CONTENTS 7 
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 Attainment through Intuition 
 
 Supreme law of intuition. — Resources of Deity available 
 to all. — Fear neither creative nor constructive. — Intuition 
 a perfect servant. — The one fundamental religion, and its 
 highest form. — How to get the answer to your personal 
 problem now. — Intuition's voice a "continuous per- 
 formance." — How intuition is cultivated. — How to avoid 
 mistakes. — Use of denials. — Formulas and their intelh- 
 gent use. — How to discriminate between the Real and 
 unreal Self. — Freedom by knowledge of truth only. — 
 Present availabiUty of all good. — Remedy for those "nega- 
 tive in consciousness" or who "lose their grip." — Hope 
 and dehverance for all. — How to know conclusively. — 
 How to cultivate and express your own true individuaUty. 
 — How to suppress "personaHty." — How to become 
 "centered in consciousness." — How to discriminate agamst 
 errors within. — What to do with premonitions. — Always 
 that within which is greater than any problem. — Self- 
 depreciation, seK-pity and self-condenmation and their 
 healing. — When to seek advice. — Intuitive co-operation 
 between two or more persons. — How to avoid disagree- 
 ments, quarrels, psychic interference and hypnotic influ- 
 ence. — The Divine Idea and how to become identified 
 with it. — Using the Now aright. — Divine law of love back 
 of all. — How to become free from dominating mentalities. — 
 Intuition's revealings personified as Wisdom in the Bible. — 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 Intuition and the Times 
 
 Real and apparent laws. — Trend of our ongoing ever 
 upward. — All manifestations on the human plane the 
 result of co-operation of God and man. — Woodrow Wilson 
 
8 CONTENTS 
 
 as an example of the intuitive person. — 'I'he war a contest 
 between higher and lower consciousness. — Fundamental 
 principles and their inevitable triumph. — Prussianism 
 is "personality" gone rampant. — Both individual and 
 collective thought has its action and reaction. — Unused 
 faculties or resources fatal, whether on the part of peoples 
 or individuals. — Apparent inability of Christianity to 
 cope with present chaos, and why. — Inevitability of 
 spiritual awakening through intuition — Even more 
 important than physical victory. — Many intuitively 
 perceive Great Cosmic Movement. — Significant features 
 of same. — Deep and fundamental, yet simple, spiritual 
 principles involved. — Fatal mistake of Kaiser WilUam. — 
 Supreme lesson for the individual. — Resistance and non- 
 resistance. — Modus operandi of true non-resistance and 
 false ideas concerning the same. — Distinction between 
 the pacifist and the non-resistant. — How non-resistance 
 may be practiced individually and nationally in the war. — 
 Times of testing. — The supreme motive, the supreme 
 power and the supreme test of men and of nations in the 
 Great Cosmic Movement. — 
 
 **I am seeking to face realities and to face 
 them without soft concealments." — Woodrow 
 Wilson. 
 
FOEEWOED 
 
 This book deals with that sense or fac- 
 ulty in the human mind by which man 
 knows (or may know) facts of which he 
 would otherwise not be cognizant, facts 
 which might not be apparent to him through 
 process of reason or so-called scientific 
 proof. This faculty is called intuition. The 
 possibilities of training the sense are limit- 
 less, and when so trained man is enabled 
 to transcend his former self, thus opening 
 new realms of discernment, wisdom, joy, 
 realization and self-expression. All this 
 may be accomplished without entering the 
 pseudo-realm of the psychic or that of 
 superstition. 
 
 There are persons who are unconsciously 
 intuitive yet who would reject the sugges- 
 tion that they themselves are ^ * spiritual. " 
 In a sense everything that is, is spiritual. 
 A spider or a snake is a manifestation of 
 an idea in the Divine Mind, and is there- 
 fore spiritual in that it is one of the visible 
 manifestations of Spirit. In the human 
 9 
 
10 FOREWORD 
 
 consciousness, however, there is an obvious 
 and positive spiritual realm as contra- 
 distinguished from the mental. It is not 
 always wise to try to draw the line of 
 demarcation between them, but at times it 
 is clearly helpful in one's quest to know 
 that one is applying spiritual laws, and 
 thereby finding the solution of life's secrets 
 and complexities. 
 
 Intuition is the faculty by which, if we 
 will but listen, we may solve the problem 
 that clutches at our heart-strings or throt- 
 tles us at the throat, the problem that we 
 never mention and that is seemingly un- 
 thinkable, but which in fact has a spiritual 
 solution — and none other. 
 
 The use of the words, conscious, sub- 
 conscioiis and super-conscious are as a 
 rule herein avoided. No true spiritual at- 
 tainment is made by subdividing the mind, 
 but only by seeing its unity with the One 
 Universal Mind. In this and many other 
 ways the spiritual processes are the re- 
 yerse of the mental. The expression, Spirit, 
 and not the Spirit, is also employed as 
 being more fitting. 
 
 In order to obtain the largest possible 
 
FOREWORD 11 
 
 view of our subject that phase of the doc- 
 trine of reincarnation which relates to con- 
 tinuous existence is herein accepted. Re- 
 jecting the horrible theory that the human 
 soul after death passes, for instance, into 
 the body of a dog or a cat, it is assumed 
 that every man always has lived and al- 
 ways will live somewhere, whether in the 
 body or out of it, presumably on this planet 
 or some other. These pages, however, are 
 most emphatically not intended to deal 
 with the spiritualistic but with the truly 
 spiritual realm. 
 
 The tribute to President Wilson implies 
 no infallibility on his part. The greater 
 any man's capacity for attaining the 
 heights, the greater by comparison his mis- 
 takes and even also the depths to which 
 he may seemingly fall. The further we 
 delve into the realm of the spiritual, the 
 more subtle become the sophistries of rea- 
 son to lure us backward — or make us stand 
 to our high convictions, as the case may 
 be. So far as we have any record, Jesus 
 Christ was the onlv ** initiate that never 
 failed.'' 
 i No other study is so fascinating and so 
 
12 FOREWORD 
 
 Batisfying as tliat of spiritual truth, nor 
 does any lead into such wonderful realms 
 of consciousness. There are ideas which the 
 human mind is capable of entertaining, 
 however, that are not easy to express in 
 language. This arises partly from the 
 fact that, while our mother tongue is copi- 
 ous in words having a materialistic mean- 
 ing, it is not so rich in terms conveying 
 the niceties of spiritual significance. But 
 a knowledge of High Truth is acquired not 
 so much through description as through 
 discernment. The signal message of this 
 book is therefore not the one expressed in 
 words but the one realized by reading be- 
 tween the lines. 
 
 "Were it not that many persons are un- 
 consciously intuitive it might be quite un- 
 necessary to give any practical instances of 
 intuition. So subtle and so simple are the 
 actual operations of the mystic sense that 
 by comparison any description of them 
 seems crude. At the risk of having some 
 non-discriminating person say, * * You do not 
 have to be intuitive to see that," certain 
 examples are given which may at first 
 thought appear to be the product of reason 
 
FOREWORD 13 
 
 rather than intuition, or too trivial in their 
 nature to be worthy of publication. Every 
 citation, however, is believed to illustrate 
 a distinct problem, need, or important 
 phase of human experience, and is submit- 
 ted advisedly. Since no sparrow falls to 
 the ground without the knowledge of 
 Deity, assuredly it may not be unworthy 
 of us occasionally to seek the cause and 
 significance of the fall. The instances given 
 are selected from the many available, and 
 are intentionally chosen not in an effort to 
 relate spectacular or thrilling episodes or 
 as evidence in support of a theory, but as 
 illustrations of more or less commonplace 
 experiences. Those who seek startling 
 stories of intuitive warnings, for instance, 
 may find them in abundance after any great 
 railroad wreck or the sinking of a Titanic. 
 The facts, philosophy, evidence, infer- 
 ences and conclusions herewith submitted 
 are the result of a lifetime of study. 
 The book is offered not as an argument 
 but rather as an analysis, in nowise dog- 
 matic, controversial, or exhaustive, but 
 merely suggestive and helpful. It is writ- 
 ten not as an appeal to reason, yet is 
 
14 FOREWORD 
 
 believed to be most reasonable. If its 
 message be of truth, well and good. Truth 
 needs no defense, nor can one truth conflict 
 with another. The author has no desire 
 to pose as an authority. Truth is its own 
 authority. If your philosophy contains 
 more of truth, let us have it. Let it cost 
 what it will of time, money, thought or ef- 
 fort, but truth at any price I To refuse to 
 accept truth because we do not know where 
 its acceptance will lead us is to be weak in- 
 deed, as well as cowardly. That we per- 
 sonally do not perceive a certain truth 
 makes it none the less a truth, but the 
 denial thereof shuts us out from its values 
 and its benefits. 
 
 Let the book stand or fall in accordance 
 with its measure of truth. 
 
 Walteb Newell Weston. 
 New York City, March 5, 1918. 
 
** Man's true good never comes from 
 without him, but only from the depths of 
 divinity within him.'' — Henry James, 
 
CHAPTER I 
 
 Instances of Intuition 
 
 A MAN and a boy were playing parlor 
 bagatelle. The man projected a marble 
 into the cavity numbered 80, and the boy 
 remarked, * ^ I knew your marble was going 
 into 80 before you played.'' 
 
 How did he know it? 
 
 Two young men were partners in stock 
 speculation. For a time all went well but 
 later they lost heavily, their capital finally 
 being nearly wiped out. At a conference 
 held at this crucial time, Mrs. Norbelle, the 
 wife of one of the partners, was present. 
 She had never traded in stocks nor been 
 associated with Wall street affairs, but it 
 had been observed by the two men that on 
 various occasions she had predicted the 
 rise and fall of certain stocks with un- 
 erring precision. In the crisis confronting 
 them it was decided to make use of this 
 gift if possible. It was accordingly ar- 
 17 
 
18 INSTANCES OF 
 
 ranged that Mrs. Norbelle should have ac- 
 cess to the market reports and, at first 
 within certain limits, buy or sell as she felt 
 led to do. So great was her success that a 
 handsome sum was realized and former 
 losses recouped. 
 
 A young girl was present at an interview 
 between her father and a stranger who had 
 come from a distance for the purpose. 
 When the visitor had departed the girl 
 remarked to her father, **What that man 
 said is not so,'' referring to the business 
 conversation. The father at first was dis- 
 posed to resent the daughter's statement, 
 but so persistent was she in it that he de- 
 cided to investigate further. He did so, 
 and by reason of the child's warning was 
 spared a worthless investment. 
 
 How did the girl know? 
 
 A certain financier of national reputa- 
 tion rarely takes the time necessary to 
 listen to the facts pertaining to a new 
 business proposition when it is presented 
 to him. Almost before the interviewer has 
 gotten under way with his story the banker 
 will say, **Yes," or **No," as the case 
 may be, and the interview is at an end, 
 
INTUITION 19 
 
 sometimes with seeming abruptness. It is 
 the man's practice to rely upon his first 
 impressions, and then allow nothing to 
 reverse his decisions. He explains his 
 method by saying that he only watches to 
 see if the proposition **f eels'* good or bad, 
 as the case may be. Almost invariably his 
 decisions prove correct, though often dif- 
 fering from those of his trusted associates. 
 A certain Miss Melton of Newport was 
 about to be married. The day for the cere- 
 mony was at hand. The parties to the en- 
 gagement were socially prominent and 
 members of families long acquainted. From 
 every human standpoint the match was 
 ideal. Nevertheless the young woman had 
 misgivings. No other man, nor so far as 
 she knew, did any other woman enter into 
 the situation. As the hour for the sig- 
 nificant event drew near her forebodings, 
 without assignable cause, ripened into deep 
 convictions. All the incidents of her ac- 
 quaintance with her fiance seemed to pass 
 before her in procession. There was noth- 
 ing to condemn, but the conviction that she 
 ought not marry the man in question was 
 like a horrible phantom before her. Yet 
 
20 INSTANCES OF 
 
 she permitted the wedding to take place as 
 planned. 
 
 With actual knowledge succeeding pre- 
 monitory conviction came the impulse to 
 return to her father's home. To have done 
 this would have been far easier then than 
 it ever could be later. Yet she took no 
 decisive action. Months ripened into 
 years. Life itself became a nightmare, 
 seemingly not worth living. With the pass- 
 ing of time the woman came to realize in 
 fullest measure that the pride and fear 
 that paralyzed her will were but the prod- 
 uct of her own thought. Not until she had 
 endured the mockery of marriage for 
 twenty years, however, did she find the 
 courage to sever the tie that had robbed 
 her of her youth and throttled all true self- 
 expression. Whom God hath put asunder 
 let no man join together. 
 
 In a somewhat parallel case the young 
 woman, Mrs. Rangeford of Washington, 
 sounded the decisive note within herself one 
 lonely moonlight night looking out of her 
 window toward the Alps. She then only 
 waited until the wedding journey was at an 
 end and her feet once more on her native 
 
INTUITION 21 
 
 soil to bid good-bye forever to the man 
 whose mere presence had become torture to 
 her. Thereupon a new realm of joy, har- 
 mony and victory promptly opened, com- 
 mensurate with her faith and decision. If 
 we are disobedient to this mystic sense the 
 way becomes befogged and beclouded, re- 
 quiring still greater effort of will to take 
 the step that frees. But prompt obedience 
 opens the pathway to gardens of joy and 
 peace hitherto undreamed of. 
 
 There is no sphere of life in which the 
 divine faculty of intuition so asserts itself 
 as in that of marriage. ~^ 
 
 Miss Beryl Greenwood of Boston, after a 
 protracted engagement, was about to be 
 married to an Episcopalian clergyman, 
 who, on the eve of the day j&xed for the wed- 
 ding, jilted her. In response to a demand 
 for the reason of his conduct the minister 
 stated that, being a rising young clergy- 
 man with a future, he had decided that 
 Miss Greenwood was of insufficient men- 
 tal caliber to take the position which his 
 wife would be called upon to fill. 
 
 During the months of illness that fol- 
 
22 INSTANCES OF 
 
 lowed Miss Greenwood nevertheless had an 
 overwhelming conviction that all would yet 
 be well. In due time she was taken on a 
 foreign tour with the hope that her re- 
 covery would thus be aided. While in 
 Europe she met another Episcopalian 
 clergyman from the States, whom she mar- 
 ried. Incidentally it may be stated that 
 her husband was of far greater prominence 
 in his denomination than the former fiance 
 could ever hope to become. 
 
 Because women are more responsive, 
 while men are more prone to reason, the 
 inner voice seems to speak with more vivid- 
 ness with women than with men. 
 
 During the fifteenth century it was 
 sought on three occasions to marry a cer- 
 tain princess to as many different men 
 who, as was the custom, had been selected 
 for her. In each case she followed the 
 dictates of her own inner leadings and 
 resolutely declined the proffered mar- 
 riage. Later, having married the man of 
 her choice, and having come to share the 
 throne jointly with her husband, this girl- 
 queen was the means of taking the initia- 
 tive in a matter that changed the des- 
 
INTUITION 23 
 
 tinies of the world. A persistent adven- 
 turer with a visionary project which the 
 reasonings and the wisdom of men had 
 rejected, came to her court. Her feminine 
 insight — call it what you will — perceived 
 the truth of Columhus's theories and Queen 
 Isabella's action provided the finances by 
 which a new world was discovered. Obedi- 
 ence to intuition always reveals new worlds 
 of unlimited potentialities. 
 
 Isabella had the courage of her own 
 convictions, declined to listen to the rea- 
 sonings of others, and persevered. There 
 are times when we must refuse to accept 
 the conventions of friends or even public 
 opinion as final. If we are true to the 
 leadings of intuition it will tell us when 
 those times are. 
 
 It is related of Jenny Lind, the ** Swedish 
 Nightingale," that when touring the 
 United States she was advertised to sing 
 in a certain large auditorium the acoustics 
 of which were defective. On the occasion 
 of music or public cjpeaking jangling noises 
 ran riot through its vast spaces, to the 
 great annoyance of the audience. Miss 
 Lind was informed of this phenomenon, 
 
24 INSTANCES OF 
 
 and, accompanied by the manager, in- 
 spected the building. Seeing a small open- 
 ing high np in the roof she told the man- 
 ager he must have it closed. He declared 
 this impossible in the intervening time, 
 **Then,'' said the prima donna, ^^I will not 
 sing." The manager knew that public 
 opinion would not sustain his position and 
 found a way to close the opening. The 
 concert was held, Jenny Lind sang, and the 
 acoustics proved to be flawless. 
 
 How did she know? 
 
 This occult guide will attend to the most 
 minor details. Mrs. Fenn, who resides 
 in New York city, says, *^ Intuition splits 
 hairs with me." She illustrates this by 
 numerous commonplace experiences. For 
 instance, while sewing she finds herself 
 needing a spool of thread. Some such 
 dialog as follows takes place: 
 
 Mrs. F, {to herself). *'I'll go to Macy's 
 and buy some thread." 
 
 Intuition. *^Go to Wanamaker's." 
 
 Mrs. F. (reasoning). ^^Why should I 
 go way down to Wanamaker's when 
 Macy's is close by?" 
 
 Intuition. *'Go to Wanamaker's." 
 
INTUITION 25 
 
 Mrs, F. (reasoning). **But I'll save so 
 much time by going to Macy's." 
 
 Intuition. **Go to Wanamaker's." 
 
 Mrs. F. {realizing that it is intuition 
 that speaks, and her intention being always 
 to obey). **Well, if you say so I'll go to 
 Wanamaker's." 
 
 So, in faith, she goes as directed by the 
 higher sense. Often the reason for her 
 faith will be made at once apparent. This 
 may be by meeting some one she has long 
 wished to see, or by finding an advan- 
 tageous purchase of merchandise. Later, 
 sometimes, she learns that by her obedience 
 she has in all probability escaped some un- 
 toward situation in which she might have 
 become involved to her detriment. 
 
 This incident shows the apparent eon- 
 test that often occurs between intuition and 
 reason. The fact is there is no contest 
 whatever on the part of intuition — intui- 
 tion is neither combative nor self-assertive, 
 and is entirely non-resistant. With its 
 still, small voice, it says ''This is the way.'* 
 If we disobey the incident usually passes 
 quickly from the mind, to be recalled, if 
 at all, with regret. 
 
26 INSTANCES OP 
 
 Mr. Miller of New York, a financier who 
 organized some of the earlier trusts was in- 
 duced by a company of friends to describe 
 his method of procedure: Assuming that 
 there were a dozen competing concerns in 
 the industry selected he would interview 
 the representative men of all with the hope 
 of inducing them to enter the proposed 
 combine. The result of these interviews 
 was usually nil, actual hostility to the plan 
 often manifesting. The promoter would 
 then begin with Number One on his list 
 and again interview the same men, in all 
 probability without finding one hopeful 
 prospect. 
 
 **What would you do then?'' he was 
 asked. 
 
 ^*Go fishing," was the answer. 
 
 ** Literally or figuratively?" 
 
 '*Both." 
 
 Here was a crisis. To give up at this 
 point meant failure and though most men 
 would have done so was not to be consid- 
 ered for a moment. While Mr. Miller did 
 not know the principle involved he knew 
 in fact that there is a supply for every 
 demand. After the second or third round 
 
INTUITION 27 
 
 of interviews he would drop the entire 
 matter so far as outward action was con- 
 cerned and go on a prolonged fishing trip. 
 He knew that in the silence of the forest 
 he could with certainty rely upon getting 
 the idea that would solve the seemingly 
 hopeless problem. His practice was to tie 
 his thought to no preconceived suggestion, 
 but to leave his mind receptive. Invari- 
 ably it struck the key-note. For instance, 
 on one occasion while quietly holding his 
 fishing rod, came the suggestion that John 
 Preston of Cleveland, a most capable su- 
 perintendent, might be induced to join the 
 combine provided he could be its general 
 manager. Proceeding cautiously along the 
 line of this *^ hunch,'' as the promoter 
 termed it, he secured the co-operation of 
 the man in question, who had hitherto ex- 
 pressed opposition only. Mark Warren of 
 Dayton was induced to join through the in- 
 fluence of Preston, and then others until 
 the requisite number had ** signed up." 
 
 There are no accidents. All is in ac- 
 cordance with law. Every manifestation 
 is the effect of an antecedent or coexistent 
 
28 INSTANCES OF 
 
 cause. The condition being the same, the 
 ** accident" always comes, but it is as much 
 the result of law as are the events not 
 called accidents. 
 
 A boy was bathing in a lake. On wading 
 ashore he stepped on some sharp object 
 and cut his foot. Against his mother's 
 wishes he had prolonged his stay in the 
 water. He admitted that he had violated 
 a clear and positive impulse to discontinue 
 his bath. The cut was not a punishment 
 but the perfectly natural consequence of 
 violating an intuitive lead. Audible in- 
 structions may be merely the correspond- 
 ence to an inward authority. Everj' meta- 
 physician knows that the outer world is 
 but the manifestation of interior conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 Intuition is perception, not so much of 
 theories as of sense regarding the matter 
 in hand. Under new, novel or trying cir- 
 cumstances one is often unerringly guided 
 by the supernal faculty. A young woman 
 of high-strung, sensitive nature won a 
 spelling-match at a time when her school 
 work was not of a high order. She ex- 
 plained it afterwards by saying that as the 
 
INTUITION 29 
 
 words were given her she could feel just 
 how they were to be spelled. 
 
 With intuition cultivated through use 
 comes the ability to turn it in any desired 
 direction. A woman thus trained secured 
 a position in the United States Treasury. 
 Her duties required the handling of gov- 
 ernment cash and she became so skilful 
 in detecting counterfeits that she would re- 
 ject a spurious note the instant her fingers 
 touched it, intuitively even discarding 
 counterfeits that had been overlooked by 
 other experts. 
 
 The more desperate our situation, the 
 louder speaks intuition. It never fails us 
 in extremis, but we must be obedient. 
 
 Some years ago two young men with 
 their guide were camping in the forest of 
 northern Wisconsin. A violent storm, 
 which finally proved to be a tornado, was 
 approaching just as it was decided to con- 
 tinue toward home rather than back toward 
 camp. One of the party, Hicks by name, 
 announced that he wished to return to camp 
 in order to get his pocket-knife. The mat- 
 ter was debated, his friend Howard finally 
 
30 INSTANCES OF 
 
 assenting, but reluctantly because of the 
 consequent delay and approaching storm. 
 
 Reason said, Continue home; intuition 
 said. Irrespective of delay, storms or even 
 inconvenience to others, get the knife. 
 Hicks obeyed intuition. The party was de- 
 layed an hour. Had this not been so its 
 members would probably have lost their 
 lives in the tornado which traveled along 
 their trail at just the time they had in- 
 tended going over it, and which later was 
 found to be impassable to their horses be- 
 cause of the ravages of the storm. 
 
 A certain Mr. Smithson, who inherited 
 wealth and who had always been associated 
 with persons of means, when in middle life 
 found himself in such financial difficulties 
 that he turned over all his property to his 
 creditors, and with but a few dollars in 
 his pocket, departed from his native city 
 and went to New York **to seek his for- 
 tune. '* Let him describe what next oc- 
 curred : 
 
 **I engaged quarters in a hotel and re- 
 tired for the night. It was clear I must 
 do something to get on my financial feet, 
 but I had no distinct purpose and no plans. 
 
INTUITION 31 
 
 On thinking over the situation the next 
 morning I realized I must go where there 
 were people who had money. I have never 
 felt at ease with persons in the poverty 
 consciousness. I could think of no more 
 appropriate place than the Horse Show at 
 Madison Square Garden, which I there- 
 upon decided to attend. Certainly there I 
 would be with persons who had money." 
 
 On entering the exhibition he met two 
 men of his acquaintance who, in the course 
 of conversation, informed him that they 
 were about to enter upon the manufacture 
 of certain textiles. **Then,'' said Mr. 
 Smithson, who was familiar with the tex- 
 tile industry, **you should have the 
 
 Mill," mentioning a certain factory in a 
 neighboring state. **We know we should, 
 but we cannot buy it," was the reply. 
 Quickly came the intuitive inspiration and 
 promptly Smithson acted upon it. *'I be- 
 lieve I can get it for you," said he. 
 
 An agreement was entered into by which 
 Mr. Smithson undertook for his friends the 
 purchase of the property mentioned. In 
 six weeks' time the deal was consummated, 
 and he returned to his home in Massachu- 
 setts with one hundred and seventy-five 
 
32 INSTANCES OF INTUITION 
 
 thousand dollars as his commission in the 
 transaction. He has since successfully con- 
 ducted other deals with even larger re- 
 turns. 
 
 No one could keep a man of that kind in 
 poverty. There are literally thousands no 
 more gifted and no less intuitive than Mr. 
 Smithson who, if they would but use their 
 God-given powers would achieve as great 
 things in their affairs as he in his. 
 
i i 
 
 The finest impulses come from the 
 spontaneous action of our inner nature, not 
 from calculating reasoning.'' — Author un- 
 known. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 Intuition and Reason 
 
 The Ladies' Home JournaV prints the 
 following on its editorial page: 
 
 ** 'You wrote a month ago/ says a man, 'that 
 we are always safe to act upon our intuitions. 
 Suppose those intuitions should prompt us 
 wrong; what thenT . . . 
 
 ''One's intuitions will not prompt one wrong; 
 they can't. Because what we call intuition is 
 simply the voice of the soul ; God's voice, in other 
 words, and it is never wrong. The trouble is 
 not that it will lead us wrong so much as we 
 think it will. The voice of God in man's soul 
 is always leading us to the highest standards of 
 right and truth and justice. When it seems to 
 speak to us in other terms it is not the voice 
 of the soul, which is the voice of our higher self ; 
 it is the voice of the lower self that is speak- 
 ing. . . . 
 
 "Men are afraid to act upon what they call 
 'intuition,' women are not. They do so act 
 and invariably they are right. But man goes 
 along his customary way, reasoning it out, *giv- 
 
 iJuly, 1914. 
 35 
 
36 INTUITION 
 
 ing the matter careful thought and considera- 
 tion/ he calls it, and then after a few days or 
 a few weeks — and sometimes after a few years 
 — comes out at exactly the point which the 
 woman decided upon by intuition." 
 
 The Engineering and Mining Journal^ 
 contains the following: 
 
 ' ' There is a market-letter writer in Wall Street 
 who frankly admits that he judges the course 
 of the market not by reason but by intuition.' 
 'When I write my market advice in the morn- 
 ing/ he says, 'I simply try to get the ^^feel" 
 of the market. I say that the outlook is that 
 the market will go up, or that the outlook is 
 that it will go down. Sometimes I give my rea- 
 sons, but very often I don't. I simply cannot 
 give my reasons, because I do not know them. 
 Frankly I write on what I suppose you would 
 caU a ^^hunch." ' " 
 
 The Evening Post, commenting on the 
 above, says: 
 
 ** People may call this superstition, but people 
 do not know. This market-letter writer often 
 does give the reasons for his predictions; he is 
 a keen student of conditions and of the tech- 
 nical status. . . . His record compared with that 
 of other market-letter writers is astonishingly 
 good. 
 
 1 March 31, 1917. 
 
AND REASON 37 
 
 **A phenomenon not unlike this is often ob- 
 served among fishermen, guides, and others who 
 qualify as local weather prophets. Though they 
 occasionally talk of winds and moisture and the 
 look of the sky, they have little scientific knowl- 
 edge of the weather; yet they have an uncanny 
 habit of being right. 
 
 '< *Why don't you speculate?' the market- 
 letter writer was asked. *I used to,' he replied, 
 'but never successfully. "When I speculate my 
 fears and hopes make me nervous and confused ; 
 I try to justify my moves with reasons pro and 
 con, and I lose my ''hunch." 
 
 "Mining engineers will understand this. 
 What engineer of long experience is there who 
 cannot relate instances of being in an ore-body 
 penetrated by only one drift, with no means for 
 measurement according to the accepted tenets, 
 and feeling the conviction that he was in the 
 midst of a whale of an ore-body ; and in another 
 case that he is merely surrounded by a thin 
 shell of ore ? Yet in neither case can he outline 
 any real reasons. If he tried to they would 
 very likely be weak. 
 
 **0f the same order is the advice, 'Never give 
 reasons. Your judgment may be fine and your 
 reasons feeble.' Who also does not remember 
 cases of the young mining engineer who is superb 
 in his advice to clients and unsuccessful when 
 he goes into mining ventures on his own ac- 
 count?" 
 
38 INTUITION 
 
 In their treatment of our subject these 
 articles are better than are usually found 
 in current periodicals. They are repro- 
 duced here as instances of the every-day 
 manifestation of intuition and of the popu- 
 lar interest therein. What the writers say 
 of getting the ^^feeP' of the market, the 
 giving of reasons, and the impossibility of 
 intuition prompting us wrong are espe- 
 cially noteworthy. 
 
 In general we become most intuitive con- 
 cerning that upon which we most concen- 
 trate, and we concentrate most easily upon 
 the thing we most love. Love, being funda- 
 mental, inspires intuition as it inspires 
 every other faculty. The fingers of the 
 expert pianist become nimble and dexter- 
 ous to the point where we say his playing 
 is ** second nature,'' which is saying he 
 plays intuitively. The gambler becomes 
 intuitive with respect to his game, the 
 financier concerning the stock-market, the 
 young woman in regard to her lover and 
 the mother as to her child. 
 
 Every person has a dual nature. Not 
 that every one is a complete Dr. Jekyll 
 
AND REASON 39 
 
 and Mr. Hyde, but every man has a femi- 
 nine side to his nature and every woman 
 a masculine side. Often in the play of 
 personal will the tendency on the part of 
 the man is to resist the feminine of his 
 nature, and correspondingly the woman 
 the masculine of hers. This explains why 
 many a man, and many a woman also, re- 
 mains unmarried. The visible marriage 
 is but the outward manifestation of the 
 man's finding the feminine of his own 
 nature and identifying himself with it; 
 similarly with the woman. 
 
 As between the masculine and feminine 
 of our nature the true relation is balance. 
 We are constantly confronted with duality, 
 real or apparent. All conception is dual, 
 on all three planes. Emotions and intellect 
 have constantly to be harmonized. God is 
 both male and female. Father and Mother. 
 The reasoning or rational mind is to be 
 harmonized with the passive and feminine 
 intellect, or intuitive principle. Speaking 
 along this line a gifted writer says : 
 
 *'The development of this intuitive principle 
 is the first step towards the attainment of 
 spiritual life and knowledge. It is not good for 
 
40 INTUITION 
 
 the man in us to be alone. The rational in- 
 tellect in us by itself is insufficient. Hence God 
 is represented as saying, I will make him a help, 
 or a governing or ruling principle (as the word 
 may mean) meet for him, or, as more literally 
 rendered, that answers to him, 
 
 ''Intuition is the birth or evolution of the 
 woman in man, that which is highest and comes 
 next to God. Its development in man is sym- 
 bolized by the dove coming upon him. Of 
 Jesus it is said, at the time of his entrance upon 
 his Messianic work, at the age of thirty years 
 (a mystic number), that the heavens were 
 opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of 
 God descending and coming upon him in the 
 form or quality of a dove, the Hermetic repre- 
 sentative of the receptive feminine intellect, the 
 intuition. It is man's highest guide to truth 
 either in earth or in heaven. It is the only 
 faculty in man through which divine revelation 
 comes, or ever has come. By means of it we 
 gain access to an interior and permanent region 
 of knowledge, where are stored up all the truths 
 which ever were known or can be known. ''^ 
 
 At the present time this blending of the 
 masculine and feminine in man is express- 
 ing itself most significantly in the move- 
 ment known as Woman ^s Suffrage. It is 
 apparent that this manifestation is in ac- 
 
 1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 
 
AND REASON 41 
 
 cordance with psychological and spiritual 
 laws, and is therefore inevitable. Spirit 
 made men and women to co-operate in 
 every sphere of self-expression. In order 
 that woman may have balance she needs 
 association with the masculine mind; cor- 
 respondingly man needs to be responsive 
 to that which is intuitive and feminine, 
 and a mutuality of adjustment follows in 
 every instance where sincere effort is 
 made. The German war is revolution- 
 izing the consciousness of the world as to 
 the working relations of men and women. 
 Be the resistance to divine laws what it 
 may, with the coming of peace there will 
 be no retrograde movement. 
 
 To all duality balance is ever the mys- 
 tical key. On the spiritual plane, however, 
 we have to learn that balance consists in 
 knowing the absolute nothingness of that 
 which is only an appearance, such as lack, 
 failure, sickness, fear, etc., and the abso- 
 lute allness of tJiat which is — Truth, 
 Health, Prosperity, Life, Spirit. **He 
 that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 
 
 A noted college president has defined 
 
42 INTUITION 
 
 education as the ability to do the right 
 thing in the right way, at the right time. 
 This becomes the more possible by means 
 of an intuitive mind. vTo awaken intuition 
 is the true education, because to find in- 
 tuition is to find the Eeal Self. 
 
 *' Education was supposed to be what the word 
 radically signifies, the recaUing of truths and 
 states that belonged to a former and higher 
 existence of man. Such was the doctrine of 
 Plato. . . . 
 
 *' All true education is a spiritual development. 
 Spiritual knowledge is imparted, not by verbal 
 discourse merely, but by the silent influence 
 of mind upon mind. It is a principle that has 
 always been recognized in the world, that one 
 mind by the influence of its silent sphere, can 
 lift another mind to a higher intellectual 
 level. . . . 
 
 **This has always been a method of instruc- 
 tion practiced by the Hindu adepts in teaching 
 the neophyte the principles of their occult 
 philosophy. The cliela, or scholar, is subjected 
 to the psychological influence of the guru, or 
 teacher, who aims to impart to him knowledge 
 through the Universal Mind. The disciple waits 
 upon the master in a spirit of emptiness, and 
 the intellectual sphere of the teacher's mind 
 fills the vacuum. This is a method of instruc- 
 *^ion and of acquiring knowledge entir*^ly un- 
 
AND REASON 43 
 
 recognized in our western systems of instruction, 
 but has long been known in the Orient, was 
 practiced by Jesus, and belongs to Chris- 
 tianity."^ 
 
 There is a judgment of God concerning 
 man and every detail of life. It is the 
 office of intuition to reveal to us that judg- 
 ment, which is sometimes called the 
 ^* Divine Idea.'' God's idea of man is that 
 he is ^*made in the image and likeness of 
 God." Man's idea of man is usually far 
 less than this. It being true that **As a 
 man thinketh in his heart, so is he," he 
 manifests accordingly. 
 
 Jesus Christ himself quoted the Old 
 Testament thus : 
 
 **I said. Ye are gods, 
 And all of you sons of the Most High." 
 
 The Divine Idea, either of man or of any 
 detail of life, is not revealed to us through 
 the intellect, however important is its 
 subordinate function. Intellect is a task- 
 master. * * The school of intellect unites us 
 to the world, that of intuition unites us 
 to God." Mere knowledge is not wisdom. 
 Intellect has no wisdom of itself. Wisdom 
 
 1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 
 
44 INTUITION 
 
 is spiritually discerned. ^^When the Spirit 
 of truth is come, he will guide you into 
 all truth." 
 
 *'By giving this prominence to the intuition 
 we would not imply any disparagement of the 
 rational intellect, for it is only through this 
 latter that the truths of intuition can be repro- 
 duced and expressed in language. The intellect 
 must be developed and cultivated to the utmost, 
 not as the instrument of discovering but of com- 
 municating truth. Perfecting and combining 
 these two departments of our being, the rational 
 intellect and the spirit, which is the union of 
 the masculine and feminine in man, he attains 
 to the highest knowledge which it is possible for 
 the human mind in this world to reach ; for man 
 thus knows God, and to know God is to have and 
 be God, and 'the gift of God is eternal life.' ''^ 
 
 Intellect deals with the surface mind, in- 
 tuition with the inner consciousness. In- 
 tellect involves reason, memory, every 
 mental faculty; intuition is inborn experi- 
 ence, inherent knowledge, the perception of 
 things. *^The foolishness of God is wiser 
 than men.'' 
 
 Man in ever recurring frequency is 
 confronted with two pathways. One is 
 
 1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 
 
AND REASON 45 
 
 invariably the way of reason, usually of 
 conscience and sometimes of fear. Also it 
 is often the path of expediency and always 
 the long, weary way of experience. The 
 other is the way of faith, pointed out by 
 intuition, and is the short cut to the goal 
 in consciousness identical with that of the 
 longer experiential way. 
 
 Eeason is methodical and mechanical, a 
 good servant but a bad master. Intuition 
 is illimitable, fascinating, never twice alike, 
 far-seeing and far-reaching, unconvential, 
 even lawless, inspirational, brilliant, **The 
 light that lighteth every man that cometh 
 into the world." 
 
 Many persons are habitually intuitive 
 but do not always realize the fact. Every- 
 thing may be going smoothly and there is 
 little consciousness of intuition, but violate 
 it and see how quickly things will *^go 
 wrong." Every normal man expresses 
 himself in some realm in which his knowl- 
 edge acts more or less automatically, which 
 is to say that it acts intuitively. 
 
 To the realm of original ideas intuition 
 is the connecting link. Men of the Edison 
 
46 INTUITION 
 
 and Burbank type are intuitive investi- 
 gators. This would not be so were they 
 dominated by conventionality or tradition. 
 They have the courage of their intuition 
 and act on it. The one attribute that any 
 successful, original investigator must in- 
 dispensably possess is intuition. All in- 
 ventors, all great financiers, generals, 
 statesmen, pioneers of every Mnd, all 
 creative workers, are intuitive. As for wit 
 and humor, poetry, music, art, intuition is 
 the soul of their soul. 
 
 This regnant faculty serves the poor 
 as well as the rich, the lowly as truly as 
 the aristocratic, the cook in the kitchen as 
 surely as the banker in his office. To be 
 a faithful servant it only requires that it 
 be master. 
 
 Intuition is the gateway to the super- 
 mental realm. It is the key of true genius 
 for it is the pathway of true self-expres- 
 sion, which in turn is the secret of indi- 
 viduality. 
 
 Many persons, devoid of self-conscious- 
 ness, in the beautiful simplicity of their 
 nature, express themselves intuitively in 
 perfect abandon and oblivion. The con- 
 
AND REASON 47 
 
 versation of children often shows this to 
 a marked degree. 
 
 *'Does the skylark consider his method of ex- 
 pression? No; it comes with his song — spon- 
 taneously, beautifully, mysteriously, rapturously. 
 He is a skylark. He sings. He has no need to 
 question why. The sun might as well ask why 
 it shines, or the stars wonder why they hang 
 rhythmically in the sky, or the waves marvel 
 that they beat in unison on the shore." 
 
 There are persons who are considered 
 failures and whose work is mediocre in 
 fact yet who actually have the ability to 
 express themselves in a superior way if 
 they could do something in which for them 
 was inspiration, in other words if they 
 could work not mechanically but intuitively. 
 Youth would always be intuitive were it 
 not, through contact with older minds, 
 sidetracked into reason. The rare voice 
 of many a singer is ruined by teaching 
 which substitutes mechanical for inspira- 
 tional methods. Sometime we shall have 
 a system of education which will not de- 
 stroy the spontaneity and initiative of the 
 pupil. There is a wealth of untapped re- 
 source in this field. 
 
48 INTUITION 
 
 In his ongoing man comes to certain 
 more or less definite stopping-places in 
 consciousness, none of which excepting the 
 Christ consciousness is a finality. ^ * It doth 
 not yet appear what we shall be." 
 
 The law consciousness, typified by the 
 story of the children of Israel, is the con- 
 sciousness of personal identity in which 
 man learns that he must necessarily be 
 under and obedient to man-made laws as 
 well as to the laws of God. This is the 
 period of self-consciousness for the pur- 
 pose of existence and selfishness in general. 
 
 Coming out from under law man emerges 
 into the realm of ** grace." In this con- 
 sciousness there is no loss of individuality 
 but a finding of universality. This is the 
 consciousness that seeks to identify itself 
 with the community, the state, the world 
 at large, perhaps at first for selfish ends 
 but ultimately otherwise. Among historic 
 characters Abraham Lincola was a con- 
 spicuous example of this in our national 
 life, Jesus Christ in the larger sense in 
 universal world life. 
 
 If at any given stage of consciousness 
 man will comply with the highest in him 
 
AND REASON 40 
 
 his pathway will be much smoother than 
 otherwise and his nnfoldment far more 
 harmonious and rounded. His unwilling- 
 ness thus to do is what causes all the 
 bumps, blows and buffetings of the world, 
 the end and purpose of which are to cause 
 him to ask himself, Why? and thus ulti- 
 mately impel him to strive for the expres- 
 sion of the Divine Self of himself in 
 accordance with the Divine Idea. Regard- 
 less of man's idea of himself, God's idea 
 of man, remember, is that he is made *4n 
 the image and likeness of God.'* 
 Man is God individualized. 
 
** Thine ears shall hear a word behind 
 thee, saying, This is the way/^ — Isaiah. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 Intuition and Conscience 
 
 Intuition adjusts itself with perfect pre- 
 cision to and in accordance with individual 
 consciousness. Accordingly every man^s 
 description of intuition is likely to be his 
 description, no two persons agreeing in 
 their version. To each reader of these 
 lines it doubtless has a different meaning. 
 
 Intuition has been defined in the follow- 
 ing ways : 
 
 *'A knowing.'' 
 
 *'A conscious realization.*' 
 
 *'A conviction in spite of appearances." 
 
 '* Sense from the Universal Consciousness on 
 the subject in hand." 
 
 ''That place within where man and God are 
 consciously one." 
 
 *'That faculty of the Soul which brings man 
 into conscious communication with the subjective 
 mind, or Fountain of Wisdom. ' ' 
 
 ''The voice of the Soul." 
 
 ' ' The voice of Love. ' ' 
 
 "The voice of knowledge accumulated during 
 past incarnations." 
 
 53 
 
54. INTUITION 
 
 *'The voice of the passive and feminine in- 
 tellect.'' 
 
 ' ' The voice of Spirit in man again bringing to 
 his consciousness that which he knew of old 
 when he was consciously identified with the 
 Great Central Spirit." 
 
 ''The act of the mind by which a truth is 
 immediately perceived." 
 
 Intuition is all these — and more. 
 The above definitions necessarily over- 
 lap in meaning. It is easier to tell what 
 intuition does than what it is. Any defini- 
 tion limits it. For that reason no attempt 
 will be made here to reduce its meaning 
 to concrete terms. Let us rather get' 
 its significance intuitively. Any word is 
 at best but a symbol of something which 
 lies back of it. Let us open our individual 
 consciousness to that something — the 
 actual, the Divine significance. * * The finest 
 essences of human life are those that elude 
 all philosophy and all language. I do not 
 need to be told that a person is patient, 
 or gentle, or genial if I live with him. . . . 
 I know it without words and without 
 analysis. ' '^ 
 
 1 From "The Hidden Way," by J. C. Street. 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 65 
 
 Man expresses himself, or may be said 
 to function, on three planes — physical, 
 mental, and spiritual. One of these, 
 usually the physical or the mental, domi- 
 nates the individual life. But the spiritual 
 should dominate, absolutely. When it does 
 thus dominate harmony prevails in the 
 life, and inharmony when it does not. Few 
 persons, alas ! live harmonious lives. 
 
 When the physical dominates the life is 
 governed by sex, directly or indirectly. 
 
 When the mental dominates the life is 
 governed by reason, usually in conjunction 
 with associated faculties, as for instance, 
 conscience. 
 
 When the spiritual dominates the life is 
 governed by perception. ** Spiritual truth 
 is discerned spiritually. ' ^ That is, the con- 
 sciousness of spiritual truth is not a 
 product of reason but of spiritual discern- 
 ment. Spiritual truth is oftentimes seem- 
 ingly at variance with reason, but the real 
 fact is that it is reason which is at variance 
 with truth. 
 
 As distinguished from intuition eon- 
 science is merely a mental faculty. It is 
 
56 INTUITION 
 
 often defined as a sense of right and wrong, 
 but there is redundancy in this definition. 
 Conscience is a sense of wrong. So long 
 as we do what we are absolutely convinced 
 is right conscience is silent. It only agi- 
 tates us as to something which we believe 
 to be wrong. Of right and wrong per se 
 conscience has no inherent or absolute 
 knowledge. 
 
 Conscience, being mental, acts as it has 
 been trained to act. Without training or 
 use it becomes dormant, as witness many 
 criminals and degenerates. Of such we 
 say they lack moral sense. 
 
 Conscience is merely on a par with the 
 literary or mathematical faculties. If 
 these are unused or untrained they omit 
 to express themselves and the person is 
 said to be illiterate. Society tolerates 
 illiterate persons, but as society itself suf- 
 fers when persons lack moral sense in too 
 great measure it punishes the lack by im- 
 prisoning the persons. This is following 
 the line of least resistance but does not 
 heal the malady. When we become suffi- 
 ciently civilized to educate persons of 
 sub-normal mentality by building them up 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 57 
 
 at the point where they are weak we shall 
 make greater progress in eradicating the 
 trouble at the root. If society suffered to 
 the same extent because of a lack of 
 literacy as it does because of a lack of 
 moral sense it would in self-protection im- 
 prison illiterates. 
 
 A common example of conscience acting 
 blindly but in accordance with its educa- 
 tion is that of the youth who has been 
 taught and therefore believes that he is 
 committing an actual sin if he dances or 
 plays cards. His conscience troubles him 
 at first if he does these things, not because 
 he is with persons not as good as he — 
 they may be better — nor because dancing 
 or card-playing are wrong per se, but be- 
 cause of his training. His conscience being 
 so trained it is its office, rationally or irra- 
 tionally, thus to cause him disquiet. 
 
 Conscience being like the color sense or 
 the musical or mathematical faculties of 
 the mind is as truly susceptible to educa- 
 tion. Intuition, however, is not mental, it 
 is spiritual, nor can it be trained by mental 
 methods. In general it may be said to be 
 untrainable. It is we who must be trained 
 
58 INTUITION 
 
 to listen and hear when it speaks. Intui- 
 tion perceives. It knows. It often knows 
 in spite of visible appearances and in spite 
 of little of what the world calls education. 
 Conscience may be said to reason, not 
 so intuition. To it the why is immaterial. 
 Yet it ignores no material fact. In its 
 knowing it is absolute and monopolistic, 
 even arbitrary. It is, however, not argu- 
 mentative or resistant. In simple, sub- 
 lime majesty its dictum is, **This is the 
 way, walk ye in it.^* There is no self- 
 importance, no high and mighty air, no 
 arrogance, no affectation, no flourish of 
 trumpets, no formality — only a simple, lov- 
 ing, positive, ** still, small voice." 
 
 Most significant is it that conscience 
 speaks negatively, intuition affirmatively. 
 The person dominated by conscience may 
 be said to resemble the mother who is 
 eternally saying to her child, ** Don't do 
 this," ** Don't do that," but who never 
 gives the child a positive or constructive 
 suggestion as to what it may rightfully 
 do. The effect is to produce inhibitions in 
 the mind of the child, to throttle its ini- 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 59 
 
 dative, with reactions of discouragement 
 and unbalanced unfoldment. In like man- 
 ner, conscience operating apart from in- 
 tuition exercises a perpetual veto. It is 
 forever saying what must not be done, but 
 gives no constructive or inspiring initiative 
 because it is not its office so to do. 
 
 While the law of intuition is that it 
 speaks affirmatively, there are apparent 
 exceptions to this, but upon close analysis 
 they will be found to be apparent only. 
 The Miss Melton referred to in Chapter I 
 was intuitively told to cancel her engage- 
 ment, a direction clearly affirmative. Her 
 depression was due to disobedience in so 
 vital a matter. Mrs. Eangeford had been 
 intuitively told that she should marry not 
 Mr. Eangeford but Mr. Ambrose, whom 
 she afterwards actually did marry. 
 
 Under conditions in which there is no 
 occasion to speak or in which it cannot 
 speak affirmatively the subtle sense not in- 
 frequently makes known its attitude by 
 withholding its approval, in other words, 
 by silence. Miss Trent had all but pledged 
 herself to marry a certain man. Know- 
 ing something of these principles she 
 
60 INTUITION 
 
 remarked tliat it was strange tliat on so 
 important a matter she had received no 
 intuitive lead. She was reminded that in- 
 tuition speaks affirmatively only and that 
 in this situation it possibly had no message 
 for her. So impressed was she with this 
 suggestion that she declined the proffered 
 marriage, though in view of all the facts 
 her decision seemed unreasonable. The 
 fact proved to be that the man in the case 
 was already legally married. 
 
 A vital distinction between conscience 
 and intuition lies in the matter of prece- 
 dent. Conscience walks in the beaten track, 
 is conventional and conservative. Intui- 
 tion knows no law except the law of self- 
 expression from the highest standpoint. 
 Though its pathway be strewn with ob- 
 stacles it always knows the true short-cut 
 and never loses sight of its high goal. This 
 is due to the fact that it sees a condition 
 or situation not piecemeal but in its en- 
 tirety. Conscience, on the other hand, is 
 prone to dominate because of a mere de- 
 tail. For instance, the controlling ^reason 
 on the part of Miss Kent for marrying Mr. 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 61 
 
 Elton was that he was religious — clearly a 
 case of ^ ^ duty, ' ' a word without inspiration 
 or freedom and based on conscience. Thus 
 the woman allowed the situation in its en- 
 tirety to be subordinated to a detail. 
 
 Because intuition is lawless in its pro- 
 cedure it may seem for a time to follow 
 precedent and then suddenly reverse itself. 
 A certain man residing in New York city 
 went to business daily via the subway. 
 Without apparent reason he was one morn- 
 ing impelled to go down town on the ele- 
 vated railroad. Kjiowing these principles 
 he was interested to ascertain, if possible, 
 the reason of his impressions, and later 
 learned that by taking the elevated line 
 he had avoided an unpleasant tie-up in the 
 subway. Many of his friends, like pro- 
 verbial sheep, had blindly followed habit, 
 and had had disagreeable and even hazard- 
 ous experiences. Intuition knows no law 
 of precedent. 
 
 Most intuitive persons are likewise con- 
 scientious, but not always. That is, con- 
 science is usually trained and active in the 
 intuitive person. With conscience dor- 
 
62 INTUITION 
 
 mant, however, and the other intellectual 
 faculties, especially secretiveness, large 
 and acting in combination with acute in- 
 tuitive sense, the resulting intelligence is 
 of a kind which is a menace to society. If 
 this combination be reinforced by educa- 
 tion and refinement the person is of the 
 criminal type known as ** dangerous. '^ 
 Such are only brought to bay by the 
 keenly intuitive detective. 
 
 It should be remembered that reason, 
 conscience, secretiveness and intuition are 
 each separate centers of consciousness or 
 mentation. Each is capable of acting with- 
 out the other, and herein is a danger with 
 persons in all walks of life. The master 
 secret of harmony is always balance of 
 action, with the highest faculty dominating. 
 That the criminal is a criminal is no more 
 a matter of chance than that you and I, 
 reader, are gifted with a sense of refine- 
 ment or a desire to please. 
 
 Mrs. Beck, a woman of the type under 
 consideration, is related to certain New 
 England families whose members are fa- 
 mous in the world of statesmanship and let- 
 ters. Nevertheless, for several decades she 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 63 
 
 led the police of two continents a merry 
 chase. So uncanny was her intuitive sense 
 that she seemed to know at sight just the 
 persons whom she could most successfully 
 separate from their money after first win- 
 ning their confidence. Her ability to elude 
 detectives, and if actually arrested to 
 avoid the penitentiary, has been little 
 short of marvelous. It is asserted that 
 more pages of the police records of New 
 York city are devoted to her history than 
 to that of any other woman. At present, 
 with a mind still keen and active in spite 
 of her venerable age, she supports herself 
 and blind husband by laundry and other 
 menial work. We violate the law of our 
 Being at our peril I 
 
 Another instance is that of Mr. Grant, a 
 man now in middle life, who is serving 
 sentence in a Federal prison for using the 
 mails with intent to defraud. Of brilliant 
 mentality and extraordinarily creative 
 mind, there has yet been lacking on his 
 part the moral sense essential to the pro- 
 tection of persons doing business with him. 
 From 'the Atlantic to the Pacific and in the 
 
64 INTUITION 
 
 countries of Europe this man has operated 
 his get-rich-quick schemes so successfully 
 as to enable him to live at a rate estimated 
 at fifty thousand dollars a year. So subtle 
 is his intuitive sense, disassociated from 
 conscience and applied to unlawful ends, 
 that for some weeks he made his New York 
 headquarters next door to a famous de- 
 tective agency in an office building in the 
 Wall street region. Meanwhile it was as- 
 serted by these detectives that Mr. Grant 
 could not possibly be in the United States 
 without their knowledge. 
 
 In justice to this man it may be stated 
 that he frankly admits there is something 
 lacking in his make-up, and this deficiency 
 gets him into trouble. He now announces 
 his purpose of living an honest and up- 
 right life when he is once more a free 
 man. Will the world understand that he 
 is as truly ill (mentally) as any person 
 in a hospital, that he is as truly crippled 
 as a man who has lost a leg, and will it 
 help him by true education to free himself 
 from these handicaps? 
 
 When a man achieves success in any 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 65 
 
 undertaking it is because he possesses 
 sense on that subject. Correspondingly, 
 when he fails it is because of lack of sense 
 on the subject. 
 
 Has it ever occurred to you, dear reader, 
 that a man is a ^^criminaP' because he is 
 lacking in sense at just the point at which 
 you possess it? How did you, for instance, 
 acquire your active and responsive con- 
 science? Is it not in part the result of 
 training in past states of existence? Hav- 
 ing learned to be conscientious in a former 
 incarnation, should fheVe be condemnation 
 on your part for the man who as yet has 
 not so learned? 
 
 It is a well recognized fact that our penal 
 institutions do not reform, and that an 
 undue proportion of their inmates go out 
 into the world only to repeat their mis- 
 takes. The remedy is not in punishment 
 but in education. Herein is the great 
 secret of criminology. The time is coming 
 when we shall have institutions which will 
 truly educate the criminal at the point at 
 which he lacks sense. There are wonder- 
 ful faculties of the mind which by civiliza- 
 
66 INTUITION 
 
 tion's present systems of education remain 
 dormant — and for which heavy penalties 
 are exacted of civilization. 
 
 Conscience, disassociated from intuition, 
 and alone dominating the judgment, pro- 
 duces many ridiculous doctrines and ab- 
 surd situations, while man's inhumanity to 
 man through a relentless conscience has in- 
 deed ''made countless thousands mourn.'' 
 Volumes might be written on the tyranny 
 of the ''New England conscience." Paul 
 the Apostle verges on the ascetic when, 
 under the spell of a dominating conscience, 
 he talks about women being forbidden to 
 pray with uncovered heads or to speak in 
 meeting. The old "blue laws" of some 
 of our early colonies which held that a 
 man might not kiss his wife on the Sab- 
 bath, and forbade pleasure-riding on that 
 day, are instances of the case in hand. 
 
 Conscience, acting by itself, may become 
 most harsh and even pitiless. The doc- 
 trine that the end Justifies the means is 
 founded on conscience disassociated from 
 intuition, and has caused the flowing of 
 rivers of blood. Conscience loves to lay 
 
AND CONSCIENCE 67 
 
 down rules of action for others. Intuition 
 leaves others as free as the freedom it ex- 
 ercises for itself. 
 
 Conscience alone often becomes a hold- 
 up. The key is a proper balance between 
 conscience and intuition. In normal 
 thought processes these two are as insepa- 
 rable as the arm and the hand. Neither 
 can say to the other, **I have no need of 
 thee." Intuition, however, being the 
 higher, should dominate. Until it does 
 thus dominate spiritual perception is more 
 or less dormant. 
 
 The education of conscience is a simple 
 mental process, depending largely upon a 
 determined attitude of mind. Herein is 
 its tendency to develop an abnormal per- 
 sonal will. The process of awakening 
 intuition, although quite different, is also 
 simple — so simple as at times to seem 
 elusive. This will be explained in a later 
 chapter. 
 
 Conscience is roused by a frequent ask- 
 ing of the question. Do you think this is 
 right? Thus the mind is challenged to its 
 decisions. By persistence conscience learns 
 to operate automatically so that normal 
 
68 INTUITION AND CONSCIENCE 
 
 tliouglit action becomes habitual. Children 
 especially are so responsive to this proce- 
 dure that usually no other method of cor- 
 rection need be resorted to. 
 
 Both reason and intuition irresistibly 
 lead to the conclusion that there must be 
 that within the mind of man which, without 
 self-condemnation or injustice to others, 
 will give him freedom and fulness of self- 
 expression and make his life one of 
 harmony. 
 
*^What man knoweth the things of a man 
 save the spirit of man which is within 
 himf — Paul the Apostle. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 Intuition and Consciousness 
 
 In delving into the realm of the spiritual 
 the word consciousness is significant and 
 indispensable. We have to do with various 
 phases of both individual and collective 
 consciousness. 
 
 It is an ancient jest that Boston is not 
 a geographical place but a state of mind. 
 The suggestion intended, however, applies 
 equally to New York, Philadelphia, or 
 other cities, namely, that the consciousness 
 of a community tends to express itself in 
 a certain type individually, and collectively 
 through its municipal acts or its state- 
 craft. For instance, the collective con- 
 sciousness of the German people — their 
 virtues, their vices, their sophistry, their 
 self-pity, their arrogance — ^is personified 
 in the Kaiser, and expresses itself in the 
 German effort to dominate the world. The 
 collective consciousness of the American 
 people in our desire for international 
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72 INTUITION 
 
 justice, peace, and a live-and-let-live atti- 
 tude is personified in President Wilson, 
 and expresses itself in many ways, notably 
 in our international relations. 
 
 The European war may be described as 
 a clash between two states of conscious- 
 ness, the lower and the higher. One thing, 
 however, is important : While it is true that 
 the lower can never comprehend the 
 higher, the absolute inability of the lower 
 to express itself on any plane but its own 
 should not be lost sight of. We might as 
 well rail at the turtle for not expressing 
 a voice like a canary. 
 
 Irrespective of location or environment 
 individual consciousness in its various 
 phases is often most pronounced. There is 
 the poverty consciousness, the conscious- 
 ness of riches, the consciousness of sickness 
 and the consciousness of triumph. A boy 
 attends school and acquires the school con- 
 sciousness. Later he comes home from col- 
 lege with the college consciousness. Should 
 he fall in love it is apparent that he is in 
 still another consciousness — and so on in 
 successive stages through life. There are 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 73 
 
 those who seemingly never get out of the 
 consciousness that something is about to 
 happen to them bodily, or that someone 
 is criticising them, or that they must be 
 ** cumbered with much serving,'' or that 
 there is something to fear, or that irre- 
 spective of to-day's opportunities for self- 
 ^ expression they must be strenuous concern- 
 ing to-morrow. The thing that makes one 
 man a slave and another a master is con- 
 sciousness. Yea, more, the thing that 
 makes each of us a subject in one thing 
 •and a victor in another is consciousness. 
 Millions are expressing sex conscious- 
 ness and various phases of the personal 
 ego. On the other hand certain of the 
 world's great ones have had ascribed 
 to them cosmic consciousness, notably, 
 Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus Christ. 
 Cosmic consciousness is practically un- 
 known except individually. Perhaps the 
 most noteworthy exception to this is the in- 
 stance of the Apostles who, after the de- 
 parture of the visible Christ, were the 
 collective recipients of the consciousness 
 of the Holy Spirit, which came **as of a 
 rushing mighty wind." Then were they 
 
74 INTUITION' 
 
 able to heal the sick, cast out devils, raise 
 the dead, and preach with mighty power. 
 Never again could they be the same as 
 before ! 
 
 Man may be likened to a musical chord 
 of three notes. Musicians tell us that in 
 every such chord there is one note, called 
 the dominant note, which in sounding, 
 must he made dominant. Should this not 
 be so the resulting melody and harmony 
 are less than the maximum. Similarly the 
 spiritual is the dominant, and if the 
 physical or the mental is allowed to be in 
 the ascendancy inharmony follows. When 
 the spiritual is accorded its rightful domi- 
 nance over the physical and mental, how- 
 ever, there manifests a maximum of 
 harmony in the life. But it should be 
 borne in mind that this harmony most 
 probably manifests as a consciousness, an 
 inner quiet realization of poise, tranquillity 
 and power to the individual, and not nec- 
 essarily as something showy or impressive 
 to others. 
 
 e _____ 
 
 When they sense a thing intuitively 
 many persons refer to the knowing con- 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 75 
 
 sciousness as existing in the region of the 
 heart. That there is intelligence in every 
 part of the body is generally acknowledged. 
 Especially is this true of those regions in 
 which gray matter exists identical with that 
 of the brain. The most conspicuous exam- 
 ple of this is the large nerve center known 
 as the solar plexus, which adjoins the heart 
 and with which it is closely identified in 
 action. 
 
 The organ of the intellect is the brain. 
 It is clear that the centre of mentation 
 known as reason is in the brain. Phren- 
 ology locates two centers of reasoning 
 consciousness, Causality (deductive rea- 
 son) and Comparison (inductive reason) 
 and assigns them both to the region of the 
 forehead. But phrenology is uncertain or 
 silent as to the location of intuitive menta- 
 tion. This is partly because phrenology 
 is founded on intellect merely and partly 
 because the seat of intuitive consciousness 
 is not in the brain but at the solar plexus 
 where it may function with love — its twin. 
 There is no faculty of the thinking con- 
 sciousness which is so tender, solicitous, 
 protective and loving as intuition. 
 
76 INTUITION 
 
 The solar plexus is also the center of 
 love mentation. Irrespective of the pos- 
 sible phases of intellectual love the only- 
 genuine love comes from the region of the 
 heart. The heart itself is a mere muscular 
 organ, clearly incapable of mentation. Be- 
 ing so closely identified with the solar 
 plexus the heart responds with exceeding 
 sensitiveness to every love note sounded 
 by the love center. When a person receives 
 news, either good or bad, concerning the 
 one most loved the heart responds some- 
 times to the point of ceasing to beat, 
 temporarily or even permanently. 
 
 It is clear that love that proceeds from 
 the head only is not real love. No child 
 or woman wants that kind of love. It is 
 too cold, too intellectual, too selfish, too 
 heady. The mental can never comprehend 
 the spiritual, more than the physical can 
 comprehend the mental. John, the disciple 
 of love, was most intuitive. He it was 
 that discriminated between the law con- 
 sciousness typified by Moses and the in- 
 tuitive consciousness of ** grace and truth" 
 that came by Jesus Christ. 
 
 The trial of Jesus was ** under law," the 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 77 
 
 ^* perfection of reason.'' The reasoning 
 faculties, sooner or later, invariably at- 
 tempt to sit in judgment on the intuitive 
 sense. When it finds itself face to face 
 with spiritual truth reason always wrig- 
 gles, as did Pilate. The feminine side of 
 the family, Mrs. Pilate, discerned in ad- 
 vance that her husband was likely to do 
 something to his discredit and she warned 
 him to *'have nothing to do with that just 
 man.'' Being dominated by reason only 
 he ignored advice from a woman, to his 
 everlasting notoriety and shame. 
 
 Crucifixion means hiding. When intui- 
 tion is ignored and mere reason prevails 
 the higher nature is hidden. The cruci- 
 fixion occurred at Golgotha, **the place of 
 the skull." Thus we have the meaning of 
 the mystical saying, ^^Eeasoning is the 
 crucifixion of Jesus Christ," the higher, 
 the Eeal Self of us being hidden, ignored, 
 crucified, when we permit ourselves to be 
 dominated by the reasonings of the head 
 in place of the intuitions of the heart. 
 
 Paul, unlike the disciples, was an edu- 
 cated man. His trained mind grasped 
 
78 INTUITION 
 
 truth wholesale — and struck him blind in 
 the process. His capacity, receptivity and 
 obedience made him the greatest Christian 
 that ever lived. The disciples were illit- 
 erate men, but possessing the quality of 
 true receptivity they had little to unlearn. 
 During the three years that they associated 
 with the Master their minds were negative 
 to his mind. This was the secret of their 
 mystic unfoldment. Judas, it is true, be- 
 came negative to minds on a lower plane, 
 to his undoing. Except on rare occasions, 
 however, the disciples were as true as the 
 needle to the pole in their receptivity to 
 the One Christ Mind. The absolute con- 
 sciousness is absolutely negative to God 
 only, and absolutely positive to all else. 
 
 On the part of the disciples, with the 
 continually increasing consciousness of the 
 Marvelous One came ever a mystic humil- 
 ity. They seemed gradually to cease to 
 live on the relative plane or longer to listen 
 to relative ideas and standards, and to be- 
 come absorbed into the absolute conscious- 
 ness. Their very humility as fishermen 
 was a preparation for higher and ever 
 higher instruction, with no interposition of 
 
* AND CONSCIOUSNESS 79 
 
 ** personality/* no self -exploitation, none 
 of the arrogance of either ignorance or 
 intellect. 
 
 The Master did not at once teach them 
 all he knew. With divine sagacity from 
 time to time he gave them such truth as 
 their consciousness was ready for. * * When 
 they could bear it,'* he revealed to them 
 the mysteries of the universe, culminating 
 at the last hours, almost the last moments, 
 with the highest, deepest, most potent and 
 at the same time simplest teaching that 
 it is possible for the human mind to re- 
 ceive except from the Spirit itself within. 
 Even this he assured them should be theirs 
 ere long. 
 
 The world has lost sight of the Master's 
 most mystical message, i.e., the power of 
 the name, Jesus Christ. Because they had 
 no awakened spiritual discernment by 
 which they could perceive anything of the 
 kind millions have read about it without 
 ever perceiving it. How are we to have 
 the consciousness to perceive spiritual 
 truth if the faculties are dormant by which 
 such truth is discernible t 
 
 Not until the close of the Master's visi- 
 
80 INTUITION 
 
 ble ministry was there any suggestion that 
 the disciples understood their scriptures. 
 Doubtless they were waiting to understand 
 by visible demonstration the nothingness 
 of death. Then and not until then was 
 their consciousness such that he could 
 "open their understanding." Yet for 
 about three years they had been in daily 
 association with the Master of the Ages, 
 and were themselves destined to be re- 
 garded as among the world's greatest! 
 Was ever situation more paradoxical? 
 
 It has been stated that Jesus Christ 
 never gave to the world any mystical 
 teachings other than those he had acquired 
 from the occult brotherhoods. Even if 
 true this is unimportant. What is signifi- 
 cant is that, contrary to the custom of 
 the secret brotherhoods, he taught, ** There 
 is nothing hidden that shall not be re- 
 vealed, '* also, *^He that hath ears to hear, 
 let him hear.'* No free soul submits to 
 being bound to secrecy as to high truth. 
 Well did he know that if truth concerning 
 spiritual mysteries was blazoned on the 
 street corners it would be discerned only 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 81 
 
 by those spiritually awake, and even 
 though misinterpreted by others would 
 still be conducive to their ultimate unf old- 
 ment. They might read or hear the words, 
 but having no spiritual consciousness 
 would inject into them a personal in place 
 of a spiritual construction. Thus many 
 Bible statements have been diverted from 
 their true and higher meaning, and most 
 religions are an appeal to the mental 
 rather than to the spiritual faculties of 
 man. 
 
 Every thought has its action and its 
 reaction. Spiritual truth is both mystical 
 and paradoxical. The reaction from get- 
 ting half truths is upon the person who 
 gets them, and is proportioned to his un- 
 foldment and true needs, always tending 
 toward his greater unf oldment. If a man 
 outgrows a religious denomination because 
 it ceases to feed him spiritually it is no 
 reason why that particular teaching was 
 not beneficial to him while he was asso- 
 ciated with it. Indeed he could not have 
 been drawn to it had it not met some need 
 of his nature. 
 I As has been stated, the lower can never 
 
82 INTUITION 
 
 comprehend the higher. It may scoff and 
 sneer at the higher but as to consciousness 
 of it there is none. While the higher may 
 comprehend the lower, such comprehension 
 justifies no boasting, and to those truly 
 spiritual there comes a sense of deep but 
 joyous humility. It is also significant that 
 **He that is spiritual is judged of no man,'' 
 as is so tersely stated by Paul. 
 
 ' Bible authors wrote according to their 
 individual consciousness. Not until the 
 reader identifies himself with the con- 
 sciousness that was the writer's when writ- 
 ing can he discern the ideas that were in 
 the mind of the writer. This is entering 
 into oneness with the spirit of David, 
 Isaiah, Matthew, John, Paul and the 
 others. ^*The letter killeth, the spirit 
 giveth life." 
 
 Whatever else the Bible is, it is the 
 ** spiritual natural history of man," the 
 story of the ongoing of the human soul. 
 It may be described as the official account 
 and description of the various states of 
 consciousness from the first Adam to the 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 83 
 
 ''last Adam/* — Jesus Christ — and includ- 
 ing various incarnations. 
 
 There are, for instance, those who be- 
 lieve that they are forever destined to 
 **earn their bread by the sweat of their 
 brow." So long as they remain in this 
 consciousness they are the living mani- 
 festation of it, according to the meta- 
 physical law, **As a man thinketh in his 
 heart, so is he/* 
 
 The story of Naaman the leper is the 
 story of a consciousness which is unwilling 
 to receive freedom from bondage through 
 doing the simple thing, the thing at hand — 
 and also of the beneficent result of an oc- 
 casional change of mind. 
 
 The story of Jacob has its psychological 
 correspondence in the life of the excep- 
 tional man who insists upon having his 
 blessing from God and will not take No 
 for an answer. Notwithstanding the 
 wholesale outpouring of divine opulence in 
 response to this consciousness not many 
 attempt or find it. Jacob, through his in- 
 sistence, was so revolutionized that even 
 his name ceased to fit him and he received 
 
84 INTUITION 
 
 a new one. Sncli a transformation in con- 
 sciousness was true of several other Bible 
 characters, notably Saul of Tarsus. 
 
 The story of the journeyings of the 
 Israelites has its counterpart to-day in the 
 minds of millions who are wandering in 
 religious consciousness, ** under law," 
 without spiritual center, standards, or 
 balance. 
 
 The story of Job symbolizes the inflexi- 
 ble consciousness of a man, who because 
 of it, finds deliverance from many afflic- 
 tions to the point where he *^has twice as 
 much as he had before.'^ Few there be 
 with the spiritual stability to take and to 
 mantain Job's stand, — ** Though he slay 
 me yet will I trust in him." 
 
 To the still rarer few comes the con- 
 sciousness of Peter, which, in answer to 
 the climax of subtle questions, **'Whom say 
 ye that I ami" replies promptly, posi- 
 tively, and with crystal-clear discernment, 
 *'Thou art the Christ, the son of the living 
 God." The Jacobs, the Jobs, and the 
 Peters may be rare but they are the ones 
 who find within the rock consciousness 
 upon which a superstructure of spiritual 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 85 
 
 power and efficiency may be builded. 
 Their discernment is not by means of rea- 
 son, nor through ^* flesh and blood," but 
 through **my Father which is in heaven." 
 The kingdom of God, remember, is within. 
 Some even taste the Christ conscious- 
 ness! Verily these can say, **I AM the 
 way, the truth and the life," **A11 power 
 is given unto me," **I and my Father are 
 one." Cosmic consciousness indeed! 
 
 The feature of the Old that distinguishes 
 it in marked contrast with the New Testa- 
 ment is embodied in the word law. The 
 feature of the consciousness of religious 
 persons who have not yet entered into the 
 spirit of the New Testament, however 
 much they have of its letter, is law. The 
 reason why people everywhere are seeking 
 a spiritual interpretation of the times, and 
 why the religions of the day seem so inade- 
 quate to meet the world ^s hunger for 
 spiritual food, is that we have sought too 
 much the form, the letter and the law of 
 High Truth. ' ' The letter killeth, the spirit 
 giveth life. ' * 
 
 Now law as the term is commonly used 
 
86 INTUITION 
 
 r 
 
 is harsK, cold, inflexible, mechanical, unin- 
 spirational, disappointing and inadequate. 
 Because they have not outgrown the law 
 consciousness there are persons a-plenty 
 who find their religion possessing all these 
 attributes. Doubtless law possesses them 
 for the reason that we, having saturated 
 our consciousness with them, shall seek for 
 something better. Both reason and intui- 
 tion lead to the irresistible conclusion that 
 it would be a strange god who had nothing 
 better for us than some of the manifesta- 
 tions of law and justice we have known. 
 Moses, the law-giver, was the greatest 
 Bible character save one. He was a singu- 
 lar combination of murderer, legislator, 
 general and meek man. For about a 
 century he was more receptive to the 
 Divine Idea than anyone else. His legis- 
 lative edicts were epitomized in the ten 
 commandments, which are the embodiment 
 of law. Law and edicts are indispensable 
 to the mind dominated by no higher facul- 
 ties than reason and conscience, though 
 they be the high attributes of the mental 
 plane. Their joint product is inevitably 
 law. Early in liis course the young law 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 87 
 
 student is told that law is the ** perfection 
 of reason.'* The judicial department of 
 our government, wonderful as it is and 
 indispensable as it may be for to-day's 
 civilization, is ponderous, dilatory, exact- 
 ing, disappointing and expensive. We also 
 have costly legislatures constantly revising 
 our laws, ^'ever coming but never arriv- 
 ing,*' eternally evolving more complica- 
 tions for the courts. All these are mani- 
 festations of our collective law conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 However admirable in its way is the in- 
 tellect that reasons unerringly from cause 
 to effect, the possessor of such ofttimes 
 lives a narrow existence, is unmagnetic 
 and uninspirational, and is cold, inflexible, 
 heavy and mechanical in his thought 
 processes. To dwell permanently in the 
 law consciousness is to be in bondage. 
 Such a consciousness may be a necessity 
 in our ongoing but of itself is not a finality y 
 though to many this is not apparent. Such 
 are like the slave who was told that slavery 
 had been abolished and he was free. There 
 being a total absence of anything in his 
 consciousness responding to this idea he 
 
88 INTUITION 
 
 said, *^No, I belong to Massa George." 
 There are those, however, who are strug- 
 gling earnestly for freedom. Once per- 
 ceive an idea on the higher plane and it 
 is like a light that at first is dimly seen, 
 but bye-and-bye it illumines the whole 
 heavens. Then we wonder why we were 
 so long in finding it. 
 
 The law consciousness is epitomized 
 in the statement, *^ Whatsoever a man sow- 
 eth, that shall he also reap." It is a 
 consciousness in which ^^By the sweat of 
 thy brow thou shalt earn thy bread." It 
 is the consciousness of ' ' an eye for an eye, 
 a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." 
 
 However essential is the law to those 
 who, as Paul says, are *^ under it," there 
 are countless people who are honest not 
 because there is a law against dishonesty, 
 virtuous not because there is a law against 
 adultery, or who refrain from stealing not 
 because there is a law against larceny with 
 penalties thereto. These often have a con- 
 viction mthin that there is a higher realm 
 of existence than that dominated by * ^ Thou 
 shalt not." Millions are there who are 
 
AND CONSCIOUSNESS 89 
 
 outgrowing the necessity for law as such, 
 especially the laws of their own making. 
 
 They perceive that there is an individual 
 realm transcending the law consciousness 
 and that it is the realm of the Eeal Self, 
 which is perfect and cannot degenerate. 
 Whatever else it is about man that *^ de- 
 generates,'' it is not the soul. They per- 
 ceive that the soul itself is God, and cannot 
 **sin.'* They perceive that they are en- 
 titled to be free from law and its conse- 
 quent poverty, sin, sickness, and ultimate 
 death. They perceive that in the (higher) 
 law of their own Being is a pathway to- 
 ward emancipation and freedom. 
 
 That pathway is intuition and is **so 
 plain that the wayfaring man, though a 
 fool, need not err therein. " 
 
**Sin shall not have dominion over you 
 for ye are not under the law, but under 
 grace." — Paul the Apostle. 
 
CHAPTER y 
 
 Intuition and Geace 
 
 Higher laws transcend lower laws, i.e., 
 they submerge or render them powerless. 
 Herein is the secret of unfoldment. 
 
 Thomas Troward indirectly refers to 
 this principle in citing the law of flotation : 
 Iron, ordinarily, sinks in water. Yet if it 
 be fashioned in the form of a boat it floats, 
 and the law of flotation thus overcomes or 
 transcends the law of sinking, while the 
 iron, except in form, remains the same. 
 
 There is, as we have seen, a physical 
 realm of consciousness. Through what he 
 is pleased to call education man awakens 
 from it to a realization of the higher 
 mental realm, and thereby overcomes or 
 transcends countless limitations of the 
 physical plane. Later he awakens to a 
 realization of the spiritual realm and its 
 laws and their power to neutralize or 
 transcend other laws, not only of the 
 
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94 INTUITION 
 
 physical, but of the mental realm as well. 
 In this process, which is the cultivation 
 of intuitive discernment, he learns on the 
 one hand the nothingness of that which he 
 had hitherto considered to be something, 
 i.e., lack, failure, sin, sickness, and ulti- 
 mately death, the ^4ast enemy^'; on the 
 other hand he learns the allness of God. 
 Numerous incarnations may be required to 
 accomplish this, but with God time is not 
 — ^all is the Eternal Now, 
 
 The pathway of coming ** under grace ^^ 
 is via intuition. By means of it man-made 
 laws, one by one, become as though they 
 were not, just as the child when he became 
 a man simply ^*put away childish things. *' 
 
 Through intuition we perceive the truth 
 of Thomas Troward^s assertion that it is 
 equally wrong to say that there is or is not 
 a devil, and likewise that it is equally 
 wrong to say that there is or is not such 
 a thing as sin. 
 
 For us to cease to ascribe power to sin 
 is to come into the consciousness in which 
 sin ** shall not have dominion over us,*' 
 and therefore to cease from sin because 
 
AND GRACE 95 
 
 we see the nothingness of it. Paul voices 
 this idea when he says, **What then? shall 
 we sin because we are not under the law, 
 but under grace? God forbid/' The man 
 who sins does so because of a belief, con- 
 scious or unconscious, that there is power 
 in sin. To perceive intuitively the absolute 
 nothingness of sin is to be absolutely free 
 from sin and its results, and therefore from 
 all karma. Our freedom from the conse- 
 quences of sin is inversely proportional to 
 our belief in its power. 
 
 Under grace we perceive why Moses, a 
 murderer, was not called to account by the 
 Lord for his crime, but became a great 
 leader, and the world's lawgiver for all 
 time. 
 
 By means of intuition we perceive why 
 Elijah the Tishbite received no condemna- 
 tion for the killing of the prophets of Baal. 
 
 Under grace we perceive why Saul of 
 Tarsus, who was particeps criminis in the 
 murder of Stephen, was not punished for 
 it by the Lord but became the greatest 
 Christian that ever lived, with a conscious- 
 ness so changed that he had even to be 
 given a new name. 
 
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 Under law an attempt is made to 
 ** judge'' and measure crime and make the 
 punishment fit it. By intuition we per- 
 ceive that no such idea exists in the Divine 
 Mind. How can it if *^ God's eyes are too 
 pure to behold iniquity?" 
 
 Through intuition we perceive why 
 Jesus Christ said to the woman taken in 
 adultery, *^ Neither do I condemn thee." 
 
 Under grace — a gift — we perceive that 
 we receive nothing from Spirit because we 
 have earned or deserved it, any more than 
 we enjoy the rain or the sunshine because 
 we have earned them. We perceive that 
 we receive only because we know how to 
 take; **Whatsover things ye desire when 
 ye pray, believe that ye have them." 
 Jesus Christ had this perception in such 
 measure that he helped himself to whatever 
 he required, and no man said nay. There 
 are those under law who wish to receive 
 nothing they do not pay for. And alas! 
 there are those who wish to pay as little 
 as possible for what they receive. Simon 
 the Sorcerer tried to bargain for the con- 
 sciousness of the Holy Spirit, and came 
 '^near losing his life in the process. It could 
 
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 only be bestowed upon him if he knew how 
 to take it. 
 
 Under grace we discern what Jesus 
 Christ meant when he disposed of the ques- 
 tion of a measured forgiveness by the re- 
 ductio-ad-absurdum process in saying we 
 were to forgive ** seventy-times-seven," 
 and thus put away the thing forgiven as 
 far **as the east is from the west." We 
 perceive that every man is forgiven when 
 he sees that there is nothing to forgive, 
 in accordance with the mathematical 
 formula of the Lord's Prayer. The better 
 translation is declarative, or even impera- 
 tive; ** Forgive us our debts as we for- 
 give/' SL matter of precise ratio. Reason 
 laboriously echoes, Of course. 
 
 In the grace consciousness we perceive 
 why Jesus Christ did not heap anathemas 
 upon those who arrested him, or upon 
 Judas the betrayer, or upon those who 
 went through the farce of a trial under 
 law, or who instigated the crime in the 
 beginning, and how he could say of all 
 who participated in the assassination, 
 ** Father, forgive them, they know not what 
 they do." Why not if he perceived the 
 
98 INTUITION 
 
 nothingness of death, and that what they 
 were doing was truth to themi 
 
 There are those who have a perception 
 that there is a realm within, a reahn of 
 tranquillity, poise and power, ** where 
 dwells the soul serene,'' a realm from 
 which one may draw endlessly for health, 
 joy, necessary supply, adequacy of all good, 
 a realm in which there is no inclination or 
 thought of violating law, not because law 
 exists, or does not exist, but because self- 
 expression is found to be positive, not nega- 
 tive, and to consist of being in accordance 
 with Being. If perceived at all, this realm 
 is perceived intuitively, **IIe that hath ears 
 to hear, let him hear." 
 
 ' Jesus Christ was not merely the promul- 
 gator of the law of love, he was the per- 
 sonification thereof. He had little to say 
 as to what might not be done. His mes- 
 sage was eternally. Yea and Amen. His 
 teaching was perpetually the incarnation 
 of the ** first and great commandment." 
 He drove it home by saying, **A new 
 commandment I give unto you, that ye 
 love one another." How could people lovQ 
 
AND GRACE 99 
 
 God with all their heart, soul, strength 
 and mind without loving the Real Self, the 
 God of each other? 
 
 The Mosaic commandments were nega- 
 tive, prohibitory. The Israelites actually 
 had the positive spiritual commandment of 
 love but their consciousness was ready for 
 prohibitory forms of law only. The thing 
 that takes us out of the old and puts us 
 into the new ** dispensation" is the per- 
 ception of coming out from under law. 
 It is present perception in place of former 
 reason. This is the true forgiveness, i.e., 
 a giving for, a substitution. 
 
 Strange as it may seem, prostitution and 
 forgiveness are the antithesis of each 
 other. Prostitution is the substitution of 
 a lower for a higher in consciousness. 
 When the counterfeiter uses his God-given 
 skill for the purpose of engraving a spuri- 
 ous note he is prostituting his abilities by 
 a substitution of the lower use for the 
 higher. Prostitution is followed by de- 
 pression and ultimate degeneracy. 
 
 Forgiveness is the substitution of the 
 higher (the spiritual) for the lower in 
 consciousness. It is inevitably followed 
 
100 INTUITION 
 
 by joy and exaltation. Isaiah in his per- 
 ception of the kingdom of God within, says 
 most wonderfully, 
 
 *^ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir 
 tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the 
 myrtle tree . . . and it shall be an everlasting 
 sign that shall not be cut off. ..." 
 
 **To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of 
 joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the 
 spirit of heaviness. ..." 
 
 ''Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; 
 neither shall thy land (consciousness) be termed 
 Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, 
 and thy land Beulah; for the Lord delighteth 
 in thee, and thy land shall be married, ... as 
 the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall 
 thy God rejoice over thee." 
 
 Hephzibah means delight Beulah 
 means married. That is, in place of the 
 feeling of desolation, of being forsaken, 
 separated from Spirit, we are to come into 
 the consciousness of being one with — 
 '^married'' to — the Universal Being of 
 Truth, Love, and Life. 
 
 The prophet Joel, speaking perhaps 
 more mystically but no less significantly, 
 says: 
 
 ''7 will restore to you the years that the locust 
 
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 hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, 
 and the palmerworm. . . . 
 
 "And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, 
 and praise the name of the Lord your God, that 
 hath dealt wondrously with you ; and my people 
 shall never be ashamed.'' 
 
 It was this realm that was referred to 
 by the intuitive disciple when he said, * ^ The 
 law was given by Moses, but grace and 
 truth came by Jesus Christ," words among 
 the most scientific, significant, loving and 
 majestic ever written. 
 
 Law says, **By the sweat of thy brow 
 thou shalt earn thy bread." Grace says, 
 **Take no thought what ye shall eat and 
 what ye shall drink," ** Labor not," ** Con- 
 sider how the lilies grow." 
 
 Law says, **Flee from the wrath to 
 come." Grace says, *' Sufficient unto the 
 day is the evil thereof." 
 
 Law says, ^*Man was made for the sab- 
 bath." Grace says, **The sabbath was 
 made for man." 
 
 Law says, **An eye for an eye, a tooth 
 for a tooth, a life for a life." Grace says, 
 **Love your enemies." 
 
102 INTUITION 
 
 Paul the Apostle is recorded as having 
 a ** thorn in the flesh." There is no clue 
 as to the nature of his affliction, but we 
 are told that three times he prayed to God 
 that he might be delivered from it. The 
 answer was mystical, **My grace is suffi- 
 cient for thee." So absolute became his 
 consciousness of its nothingness that he 
 then says he takes pleasure in infirmities 
 and distresses, for his ** strength is made 
 perfect in weakness." The triumphs of 
 grace are revolutionary indeed! 
 
 The realm of grace, the Jesus-Christ 
 reahn, is an unreasoning realm, and to the 
 rational mind, is unreasonable and un- 
 accountable. It is the realm of quick 
 recovery from bodily ailments and of in- 
 stantaneous demonstrations of every kind. 
 The greater our unf oldment on this plane, 
 the more prompt our manifestations. It 
 is the realm of good that knows no op- 
 posite. It is the realm in which there is a 
 giving of that which is seemingly unde- 
 served, the realm of something for nothing, 
 of reaping where we have sowed not. It 
 is the realm in which we discover that 
 absolute success is the law of our Being. 
 
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 It is the miracle-working realm, and the 
 realm in which we begin to see God * * as he 
 is.'' 
 
 The realms of intuition, grace, forgive- 
 ness and love are identical. The father of 
 the prodigal son, when called to account by 
 the elder brother, makes no excuses, gives 
 no reasons, says nothing in self-extenua- 
 tion, puts up no defense. Truth needs no 
 defense. In quiet, simple majesty, con- 
 scious of the invincibility of love, he says, 
 in substance, **This is my son. He was 
 lost to be sure, but now he is found; he 
 was dead, and now he is alive. But good, 
 bad, or indifferent, henceforth, now and 
 forever, this is my son." Such is the 
 quality of Eternal Fatherhood! 
 
 The realm of grace and truth is for those 
 who perceive it. It is the realm in which 
 the higher law of intuition is substituted 
 in consciousness for the lower law of rea- 
 son. Jesus Christ said, ^*I came not to 
 destroy the law, but to fulfill it." The 
 realm of grace is the realm of love which 
 is the ^* fulfilling of the law,'* perceived by 
 those who cease to permit reason to 
 
104 ^INTUITION 
 
 dominate and let Spirit speak throngh 
 them. **Why reason ye among your- 
 selves?" 
 
 Because grace is the reahn of the abso- 
 lute it is the realm of no forgiveness and 
 no unforgiveness. A mystical realm, you 
 say. Yes, but when we perceive the truth 
 as to any mystery, the mystery ceases. 
 Like prayer, this realm is **not the over- 
 coming of God's reluctance, but the laying 
 hold of his willingness. *' It is we that 
 must change. ^*I AM the Lord, I change 
 not.'' 
 
 ^'What is truth?" asked Pontius Pilate, 
 reasoning as becomes a capable judge. 
 Jesus, perceiving that Pilate lacks the con- 
 sciousness to discern truth, vouchsafes no 
 reply. Intuition has nothing to give to 
 reason in extenuation or explanation of 
 itself. 
 
 Truth is that which is, as distinguished 
 from that which is not. But God is 
 actually all that is. ^*I AM the first and 
 the last, the beginning and the end." 
 Therefore Truth is God. 
 
 It is we who must awaken to the con- 
 sciousness of that which is. 
 
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 Every scientist knows that air rushes 
 into a vacuum with great power. That 
 '^Nature abhors a vacuum '^ is a trite say- 
 ing. When the presence of the Master 
 had visibly ceased among his disciples 
 they experienced a discontinuity in con- 
 sciousness which may be likened to a 
 vacuum. Also burning within their hearts 
 were those final pregnant words of the 
 Master. Receptivity was then the domi- 
 nant note of their consciousness, both by 
 training and inclination. They were in- 
 spired by no other desire than to be 
 obedient to their highest intuitions. The 
 last mystic command had been, ** Tarry at 
 Jerusalem. ' ' ( Jerusalem means, the Self. ) 
 They had erased ^^personality'' — the un- 
 real self — so absolutely that they had be- 
 come the living embodiment of desire to 
 obey. They were empty of every other 
 interfering inclination, and so they tarried, 
 six weeks, in **an upper chamber'' — ^high 
 consciousness. Who can paint the word- 
 picture of those days as they lengthened 
 into weeks and nothing unusual occurred? 
 They were unreasoning and patient weeks, 
 but never unhappy, complaining or burden- 
 
106 INTUITION AND GRACE 
 
 some. And at last the coming of the Holy- 
 Spirit ^^as of a rushing mighty wind!** 
 Even in the spiritual realm is a vacuum 
 *^ abhorred." Absolute emptiness and per- 
 fect receptivity had compelled the coming 
 of the Promised One and the infilling of 
 their consciousness. 
 
**I don't care a fig what you think about 
 the future. My duty is with this life. The 
 future will be all right if you obey the 
 voice that is within.'' — Andrew Carnegie^ 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 Attainment theough Intuition 
 
 The Supreme law of intuition is that 
 it must dominate. 
 
 Correspondingly the supreme response 
 is obedience. 
 
 Intuition is cultivated in various ways: 
 By associating with persons who are in- 
 tuitive, by reading this book, by studying 
 the laws of intuition, and by the applica- 
 tion thereof. The crowning law of every 
 faculty is use. 
 
 We can never learn to be intuitive by 
 denying intuition. Denial consists not 
 merely in direct repudiation of the in- 
 tuitive sense, but in disobedience thereto 
 by ignoring it. There is no faculty of the 
 mind that is not dwarfed by disuse. The 
 principle involved is as simple as in the 
 ♦case of a man who should walk in front 
 of an approaching locomotive with closed 
 eyes. He would do so at his peril. 
 
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110 ATTAINMENT THROUGH ^ 
 
 As with other spiritual faculties the 
 cultivation of intuition is simple. Its laws 
 are so simple and so subtle as sometimes 
 to seem elusive. The key lies in three 
 words: Recognition, acknowledgment, ap- 
 propriation. 
 
 If you in no way deny the subtle sense 
 but affirm that it is within you, and if you 
 are still, you are already intuitive. Persist 
 and you will know the true solution of 
 your problem. To accomplish anything 
 intuitively we are not instructed to be 
 noisy, or clamorous, or strenuous, but to 
 he stilL 
 
 ''Be still.'' 
 
 **Be still and know.'' 
 \ ''Be still and know that I AM," 
 
 "Be still and know that I AM God." 
 
 Be still and know that the I AM — the 
 heart of your heart, the soul of your soul, 
 the being of your Being, the ego of you, the 
 very Self of you — is God, and possesses 
 the attributes of God as truly as the drop 
 of sea-water possesses the attributes of. 
 the ocean. 
 
 Among those attributes is omniscience — 
 all-knowing. Whether you be saint or sin- 
 
INTUITION 111 
 
 ner, angel or devil, clergyman or thief, 
 within the Self of you is that all-perceiving 
 attribute of God, for God is no respecter 
 of persons. His spiritual resources are 
 just as truly capable of appropriation 
 through right application of spiritual laws 
 as a **bad'' man is capable of closing the 
 switch and turning on the electric light. 
 The question of ** goodness'' or '^badness" 
 does not enter into the situation in any 
 instance. When religion becomes a busi- 
 ness it has its trade secrets. Herein is 
 one of them exposed. | 
 
 If a good man violates the laws of elec- 
 tricity in the construction of his dynamo, 
 slectricity will refuse to operate for him 
 just as readily as it would if he were bad; 
 The only point in any case is to ascertain 
 the laws and apply them. * * The sun shines 
 on the just and on the unjust." ^ 
 
 **They that do the will shall know the 
 doctrine.'' Obedience to intuition is ** do- 
 ing the will." Spiritually all things must 
 be done in a divine order. Knowledge is 
 not promised before — ^but only after 
 obedience. **To them that overcome, 
 power is given." > 
 
112 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 Fear is negative, is neither creative nor 
 constructive, and should never be a dom- 
 inating motive for anything. Caution, 
 reason and conscience are good servants, 
 but bad masters. Intuition is a perfect 
 master, but never a servant — and yet the 
 most perfect servant, just as truly as that 
 electricity is a bad master but a wonderful 
 servant. ^'Let him that is greatest among 
 you be your servant." Did not the peer- 
 less, immaculate Jesus wash the feet of 
 his disciples? 
 
 If you attempt to use intuition to the 
 injury of your neighbor, or for your own 
 benefit at the expense of someone else, or 
 to accomplish things which you absolutely 
 know to be wrong, unjust, or dishonest — 
 then you may expect reactions. Every 
 thought has two e:ffects — action and reac- 
 tion. There are no unpleasant reactions 
 from thoughts of love, gentleness, justice, 
 meekness — the fruits of Spirit. 
 
 Obedience is stillness, receptivity, con- 
 centration, attention, recognition, acknowl- 
 edgment, appropriation. 
 
 There are certain religious denomina- 
 
INTUITION 113 
 
 tions that require abject obedience on tbe 
 part of their followers. It being a spirit- 
 ual principle many natures thereby make 
 a maximum of progress, even though the 
 religion they receive is largely conven- 
 tional and ready-made. The apt pupils 
 through learning obedience thus become 
 ready for still higher spiritual principles, 
 and eventually outgrow their denomina- 
 tional affiliations. This is partly what is 
 the matter with the churches. Funda- 
 mentally there is but one religion — the re- 
 ligion of Spirit. If the churches could 
 eliminate fear and would see their doctrine 
 as it actually is — a process of education 
 and not a finality — they would speed the 
 graduate as truly as they now welcome the 
 initiate, thus keeping the membership 
 channel, so to speak, open and free. Con- 
 demnation of the member who because he 
 has learned to think for himself has 
 thereby learned to disagree with its tenets 
 and dogmas has never permanently helped 
 any religious denomination. Only truth 
 can keep any religious body alive and if 
 the follower loses the truth by discon- 
 tinuing his membership, so much the worse 
 
114 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 for him. Through an open mind and 
 the perception that God is no respecter 
 of persons, here and there a member 
 awakens intuitively to the realization that 
 he is entitled to receive leadership and 
 inspiration from the One Source. There 
 is no special law for anybody. Lest 
 they undermine their own living, however, 
 few religionists teach anything of the kind. 
 Nevertheless, the highest form of religion 
 is that which instructs the initiate how to 
 find the Christ of himself and rely abso- 
 lutely upon it, and then says. Hands off. 
 The expression of the Divine in us requires 
 that we surrender personal opinions for 
 the Universal Perfect Idea. The ability 
 to stand to our intuitive leadings, irre- 
 spective of all the world if necessary, de- 
 cides the matter of our ongoing. 
 
 If personal will has been dominant for 
 a long time it may at first seem difficult to 
 listen to intuition. Eemember, however, 
 that anybody can do easy things. To learn 
 to discriminate between intuition and rea- 
 son is one of Deity's most imperative 
 requirements, and may be the very thing 
 
INTUITION 115 
 
 to lead you out of your bondage. To do 
 this the will is not to be broken, but disci- 
 plined. Your health and affairs may 
 express lack of discrimination. They pos- 
 sibly shriek it to all the world — and all 
 the world is cognizant of it except you. 
 
 Even in the midst of a busy day if you 
 will take time to relax and sit quietly for 
 five minutes, desiring to get your message, 
 you will get it. Daily periods of silence 
 at a time and place free from the dis- 
 cordant vibrations of other minds are in- 
 dispensable to the earnest seeker. 
 
 Do not assume that the answer to your 
 intuitive call is to be made manifest in 
 that which is noisy or spectacular. This 
 was the mistake of Naaman the leper, 
 whose preliminary message came to him 
 through the simple instrumentality of a 
 little girl. Spiritual truth disenchants us 
 and one of its revealings is that Spirit 
 wastes no energy in transmitting to us our 
 healing messages, in spite of any false no- 
 tions we may have of our own importance. 
 The responsibility is upon us of being in 
 good receiving condition. The intuitive 
 message is invariably simple and is simply 
 
116 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 transmitted. Thus it may be easily over- 
 looked. The direction usually is to do 
 some simple thing, which thing is never an 
 impossibility but is the thing at hand. 
 
 ''In our search for the hidden wisdom let us 
 study the case of Elijah at Horeb, who repre- 
 sents to us the method of acquiring spiritual 
 truth practiced by the greater Hebrew prophets. 
 When the great wind rent the mountain and 
 broke the rocks in pieces before Elijah he could 
 not see God in the wind, nor in the earthquake 
 which followed the wind, nor in the fire that 
 followed the earthquake. These were only 
 effects of the divine presence in Nature. But 
 after the fire there came a 'still, small voice.' "^ 
 
 When the prophet heard that he wrapped 
 his face in his mantle and went to the 
 mouth of the cave, that is, he turned his 
 inner consciousness toward the spiritual 
 light, that he might in silence receive the 
 message from within. 
 
 The determination to have these periods 
 of silence and to overcome all obstacles 
 that seem to stand in the way may be the 
 key to your progress. You should not, 
 however, let your inability to be alone pre- 
 
 1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 
 
INTUITION 117 
 
 vent your seeking the Regnant Messenger 
 within at frequent intervals during your 
 waking hours. This constant looking 
 within for leadership and inspiration is 
 true ^ Spraying without ceasing.'' 
 
 * ' This turning the receptive side of our mental 
 nature towards the world of light is, in reality, 
 the highest and most effectual form of prayer. 
 The passive soul, with voiceless longing and in 
 tranquil waiting, stands in silence as flowers 
 turn toward the sun to receive its vivifying light 
 and heat. A desire for spiritual knowledge for 
 the sake of some beneficent use constitutes an 
 affinitive attraction for it as certainly as a fad- 
 ing flower attracts the dew of heaven."^ 
 
 There is no instant in your life when in- 
 tuition is not at your service, waiting to 
 give you the benefit of its knoAving. It is 
 possible to get in touch with it while cross- 
 ing a crowded thoroughfare, or while turn- 
 ing your head on the pillow at night. Its 
 message is a *^ continuous performance." 
 Concerning every question within the mind 
 it always speaks, but if we have neglected 
 it hitherto it is as if it did not speak, be- 
 cause our spiritual ears are dulled. The 
 
 1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 
 
118 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 more we listen, the more sensitive we 
 become to its leadings. The stiller we are 
 interiorly, the more positive its directions. 
 Spiritual messages are always and only 
 for those who *^have ears to hear.'' In- 
 tuition is in truth the voice of the Soul, 
 the voice of Love, and the voice of God — 
 which are identical. 
 
 **In the Silence characters are formed and 
 developed. 
 
 **In the Silence geniuses are born. 
 
 *'In the Silence great truths shall come to 
 thee, and thy soul be blessed with the rich in- 
 crease of celestial knowledge. 
 
 '*In the Silence all perplexities shall vanish 
 all troubles shall cease, all sorrow be assuaged. 
 
 **In the Silence the clouds shall hft, and the 
 light that is ineffable encompass tHy soul. 
 
 "Into the Silence and commune with Self; 
 find there thy mission in the world.'' ^ 
 
 The cultivation of intuition is helped by 
 the use of simple formulas such as the 
 following : 
 
 There is that in me which Jcnows. 
 
 The Omnipresent Spirit of Wisdom con- 
 stantly goes before me and makes easy the 
 way, 
 
 n, 1 "Wisdom of the Ages." 
 
INTUITION , 119 
 
 ^^ Sufficient unto the day is the evil 
 thereof.' ' ^: 
 
 ^^Now is the day of my salvation/' ■ 
 
 The Spirit of Truth guides me into all 
 truth, 
 
 I now await my Divine message, I AM 
 still, that I may know, 
 
 I AM now identified with the Divine 
 Idea of perfection. I AM ^^ under grace 
 and not under law.'' 
 
 I AM in absolute harmony with the law 
 of my Being. 
 
 The Universal Spirit within me is In- 
 finite Wisdom; I know just what to do. 
 There is no lack and no failure. 
 
 Nothing stands between me and my own. 
 
 Some one says, ^^But I never use de- 
 nials." Such perceive not that their very 
 statement is a most sweeping denial. Had 
 our thought processes always been perfect 
 in accordance with divine standards there 
 would be no need of denials. Every 
 erasure of false or erroneous ideas from 
 the mind is a denial. Did not Jesus Christ 
 himself say to the reasonings of the ra- 
 tional mind, **Get thee behind me?" The 
 man who turns to the right after having 
 
120 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 contemplated going to the left, has denied 
 the left. If asked if you will have tea or 
 coffee and you answer, **Tea," you have 
 denied the coffee. The important ques- 
 tion is, **How shall we deny and af- 
 firm intelligently and in accordance with 
 spiritual laws? It is for you, dear reader 
 — the Eeal Self of you — to select what 
 ideas your thinker is to entertain and dwell 
 upon, and thus bring into visible mani- 
 festation. 
 
 The Real Self is never fearful, vacil- 
 lating, resistant, proud, timid, jealous or 
 self-pitying. We cannot imagine God as 
 being these. God being all faith, stability, 
 health, prosperity, love, joy, beauty and 
 life, the Real Self of us, which is God, is 
 these. That which appears to be the re- 
 mainder of us is ** personality" — the un- 
 real self. This is not to be resisted or 
 combated but simply ignored — denied — 
 until its nothingness becomes apparent. 
 It is the office of intuition to discriminate 
 between the unreal and the Real Self. 
 
 All our faculties are God-given, and are 
 to be redeemed, that is, they are to be 
 
INTUITION 121 
 
 spiritualized. They are to be taken from 
 the dominion of personal will and identified 
 with the Divine will, taken from the dom- 
 ination of the physical and mental planes 
 and made subordinate to the spiritual 
 nature. Intuition, reason, conscience and 
 caution must all be tied to the higher will, 
 and be made each to take its rightful place, 
 either of domination or subordination, as 
 the case may be. There is perhaps no 
 human analogy, but the process may be 
 said to be symbolized by a territory ask- 
 ing admission to the family of states. It 
 relinquishes some of its identity, to be 
 sure, but by becoming an integral part of 
 the whole United States it gains far more 
 than it relinquishes. 
 
 The real redemption is not to be accom- 
 plished by walking on golden streets, pass- 
 ing through pearly gates, or playing on 
 silver harps in some post mortem period 
 of ** salvation." The real salvation lies in 
 illuminating all our faculties spiritually, 
 which is done by discerning truth. It is 
 knowledge of truth only which * * shall make 
 us free." The only heaven is the one we 
 attain by unfolding to the consciousness 
 
122 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 of it, and its doors ^*open inwardly." 
 Jesus Christ made this clear when he sai(?, 
 *^The kingdom of God IS" — not to he, not 
 bye and bye, not after death — but is within 
 now. "We possess only as much of it as 
 we come into a consciousness of. Denial 
 that it now is is a sure way to shut out 
 its present realization. **This is life 
 eternal, to know TJiee'^ (present tense). 
 How are we going to know God and Jesus 
 Christ except by means of those faculties 
 capable of discerning spiritual truth? 
 *^ Flesh and blood cannot enter the king- 
 dom." That is, heaven is not discerned by 
 expression on the lower planes. ** Spiritual 
 truth is spiritually discerned." 
 
 You may not at once know all the steps 
 included in the solution of your problem. 
 Intuition will usually tell you the next step 
 only. It withholds the following step until 
 you have in faith taken the first. It re- 
 quires will to do the thing to-day that ought 
 to be done to-day. Thus, ^^Now is the day 
 of your salvation." 
 I 
 
 ' Concerning any given problem or situa- 
 tion there is but one solution in the Divine 
 
INTUITION 123 
 
 Mind — the Divine Idea. Our ideas are im- 
 perfect ; the divine idea is always perfect. 
 
 Assuming that the question is as to my 
 going to Atlantic City, there cannot be in 
 the Divine Mind the idea that I shall at 
 the same time both go and not go. The 
 One Universal Mind cannot be at variance 
 with itself. If I am to be guided by in- 
 tuition I must not merely be willing but I 
 must wish to know which it is, and must 
 desire this sincerely, conclusively, and irre- 
 spective of the opinions of others. When 
 it is made apparent I must be obedient, 
 otherwise I am simply dallying with in- 
 tuition and thereby risking my future per- 
 ception of its leadings. i 
 
 Spiritual laws are the incarnation of love 
 yet they are stern, and attainment is re- 
 served for those who are sincere. The 
 spiritual pathway is not a diversion, nor 
 a pilgrimage in search of novelty. There 
 is no attainment through mere curiosity, 
 with the idea of accepting or rejecting the 
 dictum of intuition at our pleasure. This 
 would be a prostitution of the highest in 
 us. Thus there would be a ** house divided 
 against itself,'' leading only to confusion. 
 
124 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 There should be a suspension of per- 
 sonal will. The fact that I do or do not 
 wish to go should for the moment be held 
 in abeyance. The desire to go may on the 
 one hand be so identified with personal will 
 as to over-ride all intuitive leadings. On 
 the , other hand it may be the voice of 
 intuition impelling me to go, my only hesi- 
 tation then being because of conscience or 
 fear, or both. 
 
 No hard or fast rule can be laid down 
 for all cases. There are times when, de- 
 siring to go to Atlantic City and knowing 
 no reason to the contrary it is well to as- 
 sume that the very desire is intuitive and 
 to be obeyed. If there be an entire readi- 
 ness to be shown to the contrary it will 
 often turn out under these conditions that 
 to go is the way of faith. Because faith is 
 creative it is always handsomely rewarded. 
 
 It is sometimes helpful to demand to 
 know conclusively what to do. One way 
 to accomplish this is for me to assume that 
 I will remain where I am until conclusively 
 shown to the contrary, an attitude which 
 has solved many problems for many 
 
INTUITION 125 
 
 people. This brings the will into play and 
 helps to maintain a positive attitude of 
 mind. Concerning to-day's responsibili- 
 ties, the quiet acceptance of them as all 
 good, amid to-day's environment, and as- 
 sumption that as soon as necessary we 
 shall know intuitively and conclusively of 
 any requisite change, is one of the surest 
 ways of intuitive unf oldment. There is no 
 **rule of thumb'' by which we may of a 
 certainty detect the voice of intuition. It 
 is a knowing. 
 
 Among those ** negative in conscious- 
 ness" are persons habitually apologetic or 
 frequently asking advice. Such for the 
 time being have lost their intuitive lead- 
 ings. This may occur through personal 
 will or excessive reasoning, or both. Thus 
 do many men ^4ose their grip." Bodily 
 weakness or financial reverses are among 
 the outward manifestations of such states 
 of consciousness. 
 
 The negative mind is negative where it 
 should be positive, and positive where it 
 should be negative. It is timid, appre- 
 
126 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 hensive, vacillating, and imagines impend- 
 ing calamities. The negative mind sees 
 the problem as a mountain. By resolutely 
 summoning all our reserve forces to the 
 attack, however, lo! it is only a mole-hill. 
 The problem in fact may not have dimin- 
 ished in size. It is we that must change 
 in consciousness through becoming positive 
 in place of being negative. 
 
 The anvil, though scarcely more than a 
 mass of iron, is negative to the hammer. 
 The hammer, though relatively small, is of 
 tempered steel, and is positive to the anvil. 
 It strikes tlie blows. 
 
 No problem is given us but there is that 
 within us which is greater than it. No 
 problem is given us but has a spiritual 
 solution. 
 
 No progress in consciousness is made by 
 trying to analyze or find the source of 
 *^sin." Sin is ^^ whatsoever is not of 
 faith.'' Why search for that which is not? 
 Faith is the only creative power. 
 
 Like the chain that parts at the weakest 
 link, each of us has his troubles at the 
 point where he is most negative — and 
 
INTUITION 127 
 
 everyone is negative at some point. Also 
 with regard to some one point everyone 
 fluctuates, being negative to-day and posi- 
 tive to-morrow. It is at just these points 
 that intuition is faithfully seeking to help 
 and is ready to be of the greatest service. 
 That one may acquire his greatest strength 
 and achieve his greatest victories at the 
 point at which he was originally weakest 
 is a mighty spiritual truth. 
 
 Surpassing as is this fact it is an even 
 greater truth that in the great cosmic 
 movement — the Divine Order — every 
 human being has his own individual work 
 to do. When you come to think of it it is 
 inconceivable that it could be otherwise, 
 every man being the expression of a Divine 
 and perfect idea. This means, dear reader, 
 that in a sense, the universe will be in- 
 complete until you find and do your true 
 Work, and that in the doing you will know 
 absolute joy, peace, harmony and satis- 
 faction. It means that if all the world 
 should attempt your work and fail at it, 
 absolute success in it would be yours, for 
 in the doing would be the fullest expres- 
 
128 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 sion of your Eeal Self. To find for you 
 your true individual place and work is the 
 office of intuition. 
 
 The negative mind is an **uncentered'' 
 mind. We are to be negative to God only, 
 i.e., we are to be dominated by — receptive 
 to — the Universal Mind only, the Christ 
 mind within. This is being centered in 
 consciousness. The pathway is via intui- 
 tion. 
 
 The positive mind is magnetic. It draws 
 its own. No mountain, no river, no plain, 
 no depth, no height, is too great to prevent 
 the positive mind from attracting its own. 
 
 *'Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, 
 Can keep my own away from me."^ 
 
 Compromise means complications. The 
 spiritual mind is the positive mind. Noth- 
 ing is promised *^him that wavereth. Let 
 not that man think he shall receive any- 
 thing of the Lord." Also there are times 
 when you are simply to *^ stand still and 
 see the salvation of the Lord," — ^not neces- 
 sarily the deliverance as pictured by your 
 
 1 From "Waiting," by John Burroughs. 
 
INTUITION 129 
 
 reasoning mind but according to the per- 
 fect idea in the Divine Mind. ^* Having 
 done all,'^ you must stand. **Be steadfast, 
 unmovable/' The greater seems the ap- 
 parent calamity impending, the nearer is 
 your deliverance. 
 
 *'The highest inspiration usually conies from 
 the wail of despair, and those who weep are 
 often close upon the confines of great joy, love, 
 peace and perfect rest."^ 
 
 Paradoxical as it may seem, intuition is 
 largely what we make it. If we are habitu- 
 ally thorough, it is thorough; if we are 
 superficial only, alas! it seems superficial; 
 if we are unstable, it is unstable; if we 
 are obedient, it is obedient ; and if we are 
 in dead earnest, it is in dead earnest. In 
 sublime wisdom it adapts itself to our in- 
 dividual consciousness. In the language of 
 a great teacher, 
 
 **When leaned upon, believed in, stood by, 
 the Heavenly Trend shows forth plainly. When 
 the ways against the Heavenly Trend are tam- 
 pered with they crush like millstones.'' ^ 
 
 1 From "The Hidden Way," by J. 0. Street. 
 
 2 Emma Curtis Hopkins. 
 
130 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 Bondage is enduring what intuition re- 
 jects as unnecessary or unworthy. Mis- 
 fortune is due to failure to stick to the 
 things of Spirit as revealed through intui- 
 tion. In being born into the spiritual 
 realm there are birth-pains as truly as in 
 the physical birth. But **the greater the 
 victory, the greater the glory." What if 
 there does come a dark hour when failure 
 seems inevitable? The urge for fuller and 
 larger expression is always the divine 
 urge. 
 
 When you have arrived at this point 
 know that in accordance with the laws of 
 mindj victory is now inevitable if you but 
 persist. **This way is closed to doubters 
 only." Because under these conditions 
 victory is so signal, history is full of its 
 examples. Sheridan's **Face the other 
 way, boys, we're going back," and Grant's, 
 *^I propose to fight it out on this line if 
 it takes all summer," partake of this con- 
 sciousness. Even Napoleon knew the 
 principle when he said, *^If there is one 
 soldier among you who would kill his em- 
 peror, let him fire. ' ' Among the scriptural 
 expressions of this idea are: **I will give 
 
INTUITION 131 
 
 yon a mouth and wisdom which all your 
 adversaries shall not be able to gainsay 
 nor resist," *^No weapon that is formed 
 against thee shall prosper," *^ Though he 
 slay me yet will I trust in him, " * * I can do 
 all things through Christ which strength- 
 eneth me." 
 
 *'When the way seems blocked and there seems 
 no way of escape, then take courage and push 
 on, go forward. There is no other way to go. 
 Be sure just then that deliverance is near. 
 
 **In such a situation never take counsel of 
 common experience. This is no common situa- 
 tion. The more extraordinary it seems, the more 
 extraordinary will be the wisdom and power 
 that will come to meet it. The voice of the world 
 is, *You are in a pretty fix!' 'You are gone, 
 surely!' 'Now don't you wish you had left 
 well enough alone, and stayed where you were ? ' 
 Common experience may suggest a compromise, 
 or that it is better to surrender than be de- 
 stroyed. Divine counsel is, Go forward. Never 
 give up. Never surrender. Never compromise. 
 Under the divine direction, command a way to 
 open through the sea, through the apparently 
 impossible. When they told Napoleon he could 
 not pass the Alps with his army, he replied, 
 * There are no Alps!' He passed them. In his 
 mind he removed them.^ 
 
 iFrom "Go Forward," by P. S. Van Eps. 
 
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 To be phased is not to have come into 
 the stability consciousness. It is apparent 
 the key is in the will. Because the will is 
 so imperial the reactions from its perver- 
 sion are correspondingly severe. Spirit 
 does not lend itself permanently to our 
 mere manipulation for the accomplishment 
 of personal ends. 
 
 It is in connection with the will that 
 there come the most subtle and alluring 
 suggestions to depart from the intuitive 
 path. A little self-analysis is quite likely 
 to reveal that you are really doing, not 
 what Spirit through intuition is telling you 
 to do, but what you want to do, or even 
 what you have decided God ought to want 
 you to do. Such are the subtleties of the 
 reasoning mind. 
 
 ** Sometimes we get into prisons, hke Jeremiah 
 thinking he was doing God-service and sur- 
 prised to find himself a martyr. If he had only- 
 just known he was not doing God-service! He 
 was merely thinking he was. His modus ope- 
 randi was only caught from his own mind. 'Who 
 is this that darkeneth counsel by words without 
 knowledge?' "^ 
 
 1 Emma Curtis Hopkins. 
 
iNTUITION 133 
 
 It is useless to say we have faith and 
 then act to the contrary. In finding and 
 doing what God actually desires and 
 through intuition tells us to do is there 
 healing of body or affairs. Also every 
 time you solve your problem by means of 
 spiritual principles you help the collective 
 consciousness of the world as to that kind 
 of problem. **No man liveth unto him- 
 self.'' Everything done on the human 
 plane is by the co-operation of naan and 
 God. When men individually * * do the 
 will" then is the healing of the nations. 
 Primarily the way to solve the interna- 
 tional problem is for you and me to solve 
 our individual problems. 
 
 It often happens that to be guided by 
 our intuitions is to do the thing that ap- 
 pears to be so radical that we hesitate. 
 We must not be dominated by ** appear- 
 ances'' however, but by ** righteous judg- 
 ment" — the judgment which is the percep- 
 tion of truth from within and not from 
 without. **The secret of things is from 
 within. ' ' Intuition may be leading you out 
 of your present environment, away from 
 
134 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 persons with whom you are associated, and 
 into an absolutely new realm — one so won- 
 derful and transcendent that you have no 
 present conception what it will mean to 
 you. At all events, there is nothing to 
 fear. 
 
 Premonitions of impending calamity 
 should be emphatically denied. The future 
 is builded out of the present, and the very 
 purpose of the premonition is that we may 
 use the present in order to avoid in the 
 future that which might otherwise be 
 calamitous. The power of thought is given 
 us not merely that we may create, but that 
 we may eradicate any and every false or 
 negative condition. 
 
 The giving of reasons on the part of the 
 intuitive person is usually a mistake, and 
 indeed may be fatal to the success of the 
 thing at hand. To give a reason is often- 
 times to set up a defense. Truth needs 
 no defense. If I have the truth it is for 
 me to act on it. The results will be self- 
 evident and self -vindicating. 
 
 There is sometimes a belief that to defer 
 to intuition is to depreciate one's self or in 
 some way to suffer loss. The truth is the 
 
INTUITION 135 
 
 reverse of this. Among the keenest of 
 human suffering is that occasioned by self- 
 depreciation, self-pity, or self-condemna- 
 tion. In its emancipation from all these obe- 
 dience to intuition is often revolutionary. 
 Verily it is a case of **He that loseth his 
 life shall find it. ' ' Not to be obedient to in- 
 tuition is to lose the individuality one al- 
 ready has, for of all faculties intuition pos- 
 sesses most the quality of individuality. 
 Jesus Christ was the most individualized 
 man the world has yet known, and the most 
 intuitive. 
 
 Ultimately, having been obedient, we 
 realize that we have done the only reason- 
 able thing, and perhaps wonder how we 
 could ever have contemplated doing any- 
 thing else. 
 
 Your intuition is primarily for your 
 leading alone. Of no other faculty of the 
 mind is this so true. It is therefore not 
 for any person of mature years to be 
 habitually negative to the mind of another. 
 
 Many a wife becomes a chronic invalid 
 for no other reason than that she has be- 
 come habitually negative to the mind of 
 her husband. The law of intuition is the 
 
138 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 law of individuality and we ignore it at 
 our peril. The time even comes when the 
 mother-bird sometimes pushes her young 
 out of the nest that they must of necessity 
 learn to fly. 
 
 General Grant listened to his advising 
 generals and then issued his orders accord- 
 ing to his own leadings. Queen Isabella 
 of Spain declined to let others do her think- 
 ing for her. Many have to learn what 
 this means. With some minds if not done 
 intuitively it would merely lead to stub- 
 bornness. In no event, however, is intui- 
 tion cultivated except by thinking our own 
 thoughts and expressing individuality in 
 our lives. Compromise at this point often 
 means complications in affairs, health or 
 finances. 
 
 Whatever the seeming exceptions to the 
 individuality of intuition they are more 
 apparent than real. There may be an in- 
 tuitive knowing on the part of one person 
 for another in the case of parent and child, 
 husband and wife, teacher and pupil, law- 
 yer and client, partner and partner. I 
 might know intuitively, for instance, that 
 you should take better care of your health, 
 
INTUITION 137 
 
 or pay your debts, or that you have been 
 disobedient to your intuitions, or that you 
 should rid yourself of a false friend. 
 
 Those negative in consciousness find that 
 intuition often comes to their aid by the 
 suggestion to seek advice, the adviser in- 
 dicated being a person of positive and 
 intuitive nature — just the kind to be most 
 helpful at such times. A conference under 
 these circumstances is worth all it costs of 
 time, money or effort. Many a sickness 
 is thus avoided, many a financial calamity 
 averted, many a problem solved. Perhaps 
 the greatest possible kindness that can be 
 done for you, dear reader, at such a time, is 
 to help you to the point where you again 
 become conscious of your own intuitional 
 leadings. Spirit cares far more for intui- 
 tion to be aroused and obeyed than for 
 your freedom from problems, or your pos- 
 session of gold or even health. 
 
 While I might with benefit advise you 
 generally or even specifically there is a 
 point beyond which I cannot go, for the 
 self-evident reason that no one else can 
 live your life for you. When you unmis- 
 takably get your intuitive leadings you 
 
138 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 should follow them even though they are 
 at variance with what others conceive to 
 be their judgment for you. Thus is the 
 individuality of your own intuition vindi- 
 cated and established. 
 
 There is a subtle danger alike in seeking 
 to dominate or in becoming negative to the 
 mind of another. This is obviated by 
 holding in mind that only the Divine Idea 
 manifests, the suggestion being, of course, 
 that ** personality'' is thus subordinated 
 to the Divine Mind. In the larger sense 
 the time must inevitably come, in this in- 
 carnation or in some other, when each must 
 learn to rely on Spirit within only. **A11 
 thy children shall be taught of the Lord.*' 
 More persons fail, however, in an unwill- 
 ingness to seek or receive help when they 
 should than otherwise. 
 
 It is seldom that two or more persons 
 can co-operate intuitively for any long 
 period of time. The reason is that through 
 intuitive unfoldment each becomes so in- 
 dividualized as, in a sense, to become a 
 law unto himself. This does not mean that 
 we are thus less loving or more selfish 
 
' INTUITION 13S 
 
 or indifferent, but that we are guided less 
 and less by mere personal opinions, and 
 more and more by Divine Mind. Intui- 
 tion's sway is monopolistic. Successful 
 intuitive expression requires that we be 
 negative to intuition only. 
 
 It is noteworthy that Mr. Norbelle, re- 
 ferred to in Chapter I, could not co-operate 
 with Mrs. Norbelle in stock speculation. 
 When he attempted to follow her advice his 
 mind became negative to hers instead of to 
 his own intuition, and thereby lost its ini- 
 tiative. Nor could Mrs. Norbelle success- 
 fully co-operate with either of the two men. 
 Her thought processes were so at variance 
 with theirs that as soon as she began to 
 reason as to their procedure her thinking 
 dropped thereby to the mental plane and 
 she lost inspiration. 
 
 In a partnership it often occurs, for 
 instance, that one is the better financier 
 while the other is superior in technical 
 knowledge, in which case the one most in- 
 tuitive as to finances should be deferred 
 to as to them, and vice versa. In the larger 
 sense, each, by associating with a mind 
 strong to the point of intuition as regards 
 
140 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 a certain line of action, thus has the op- 
 portunity to become trained in the line in 
 which he is individually weak. Not every 
 one is big enough to take this attitude, 
 however. It sometimes occurs, of course, 
 that the pupil outgrows and surpasses the 
 teacher. 
 
 If you and I are guided in our relations 
 by our intuitions such a thing as a quarrel 
 or even a disagreement between us will be 
 impossible. This holds good in all rela- 
 tions of life and is true even though we 
 simply agree to separate. Much more is 
 it true if we are to co-operate. The rea- 
 sons for this are: 
 
 (a) In the Divine Mind there is but one 
 idea in regard to our relations and it is 
 manifestly impossible for the Divine Idea 
 to be that we shall both agree and dis- 
 agree. The Divine Mind cannot be at 
 variance with itself. Its ideas are perfect. 
 Our ideas, based on precedent and wrought 
 out more or less through reason, are im- 
 perfect. Therefore it is for us to ascertain 
 by means of intuition just what is the 
 Divine idea as to the situation in hand. 
 
INTUITION 141 
 
 (h) If you and I are true to our high 
 leading we shall perceive this Divine Idea. 
 Then both of us working from the same 
 standpoint, with the one idea in mind, it 
 is self-evident that there can be only har- 
 mony in our relations. This is as in- 
 evitable as the mathematical axiom, **Two 
 things equal to a third are equal to each 
 other. ' ' 
 
 In order to conform approximately to 
 fixed standards the tailor must from time 
 to time fit and adjust the new garments. 
 In order to build the railroad or the sky- 
 scraper in accordance with plans and 
 specifications the engineer is constantly 
 making measurements and consulting his 
 drawings. So each day we should get in 
 touch with the Divine Idea of life and its 
 details, lest our personal will and imper- 
 fect ideas creep in and retard us. 
 
 What constitutes the Divine Idea is not 
 revealed to us in its entirety, but only as 
 we can assimilate it. Daily it will unfold 
 like the rose. Spirit operates in the 
 Eternal Now. It crosses no bridges in 
 advance. We in our busybody solicitude, 
 
142 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 in our self-importance, in our vanity, in 
 our arrogance, are forever neglecting the 
 Now and its resources in order that we 
 may spend the thought forces of to-day 
 living in an imaginary future that may 
 never materialize, least of all in the way 
 anticipated by us. Thus do we rob the 
 Now and neglect to enjoy the sunshine of 
 to-day, to speak the cheering word of to- 
 day, to use the abundance of to-day. Such 
 are the imperfect ideas that shut out from 
 our consciousness the Divine Idea of per- 
 fection. 
 
 When we reverse the process and 
 through intuition become receptive to the 
 Divine Idea we are shown the next step. 
 The step beyond, however, is hidden until 
 we have brought it into visibility by taking 
 the first step in faith. Intuition is ever 
 ready to solve the deepest problems by 
 revealing the step for to-day, even if that 
 is only to **Be still and know.'' It is ready 
 when we are ready — but not before. Spirit 
 can wait — through many incarnations if 
 necessary. With Spirit there is only the 
 Eternal Now and time is not. Our visions 
 
INTUITION 143 
 
 will be brought into visible manifestation 
 only through learning to use the Now 
 aright. 
 
 You say, dear reader, that this seems 
 hard and that God seems cold. Back of 
 Divine law is love, and love alone. Back 
 of the fact that fire scorches is the benefi- 
 cent fact that it warms. Back of the fact 
 that the man doubtless will be killed if he 
 jumps from the precipice is the fact that 
 the law of gravitation is indeed good. If 
 we trifle with Divine laws we are likely 
 to find them dynamite as well as dynamic. 
 
 Intuition is the pilot that leads us out 
 of much bondage arising from the com- 
 plicated relationships of modern civiliza- 
 tion. These appear in great variety, from 
 those having their beginnings in most lov- 
 ing ties to extreme cases amounting to 
 veritable vampirization or hypnosis. 
 
 Aside from relationships in which one 
 person may rightfully exercise authority 
 over another, as in that of parent and 
 child, no person should ever dominate 
 another to the point of inhibition of the 
 
144 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 
 
 will. It is at this point that hypnotism 
 has its beginnings, and the pathway of 
 hypnotism is the pathway of death. 
 
 Those awakened intuitively sometimes 
 observe a sense of depletion following 
 close association with certain persons. 
 This may occur to the point that mere 
 presence in the same room is followed by 
 unpleasant reactions. While no one should 
 surrender to such conditions irrationally 
 nor yield to supersensitiveness, actual in- 
 tuitive warnings are violated at our peril. 
 
 Not infrequently two persons are in- 
 volved in a relationship in which one has 
 become so negative to the other that the 
 individuality of the former is submerged. 
 The mind of the latter is most probably 
 positive, dominant and selfish. It absorbs, 
 albeit unconsciously. The other is of the 
 temperament that gives to the point of 
 depletion. Many blond persons are of this 
 type. Their magnetic radiations become 
 so drawn upon that they suffer mentally 
 and bodily. Numerous cases of physical 
 disability originate in this way. The 
 remedy is other companionship and either 
 permanent or temporary separation from 
 
INTUITION 143 
 
 the presence of the depleting person. 
 This oftentimes the latter resists. The 
 cause of such a relationship may be found 
 in violated intuition; the remedy, obedi- 
 ence thereto. Usually the remedy is in- 
 tuitively known to the sufferer. The will 
 to be obedient is of itself healing. 
 
 In all cases of mind-domination each per- 
 son involved is in bondage, though not of 
 the same form. Because of the oneness 
 of all mankind there is a certain unity even 
 in bondage, but it is mainly the unity of 
 remedy. The solution which is right for 
 one is inevitably right for the other. The 
 Divine Mind cannot be at variance with 
 itself. The initiative as to the solution lies 
 with the one most intuitive, and in apply- 
 ing it he is helping both. With possibly 
 few exceptions the initiative lies with the 
 person dominated. Spiritual awakening 
 brings larger responsibility, but the path- 
 way of intuition is ever the pathway of 
 faith. 
 
 Consider intuition as personified in 
 Wisdom and as speaking in the following 
 
146 ATTAINMENT THROUGH INTUITION 
 
 lines, and observe how they take on a new 
 significance : 
 
 *^For Wisdom is better than rubies, and all the 
 things that may be desired are not to be com- 
 pared to it. 
 
 *'I, "Wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out 
 knowledge of witty inventions. 
 
 *' Counsel is mind and sound wisdom. I AM 
 understanding. I have strength. 
 
 ^*By me kings reign and princes decree justice. 
 
 "By me princes rule and nobles, even all the 
 judges of the earth. 
 
 "Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable 
 riches and righteousness. 
 
 "My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine 
 gold, and my revenue than choice silver. 
 
 "I lead in the way of righteousness, in the 
 midst of the paths of judgment; 
 
 "That I may cause those that love me to in- 
 herit substance, and I will fill their treasures. 
 
 "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching 
 daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my 
 doors. 
 
 "For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall 
 obtain favor of the Lord. 
 
 "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his 
 own soul. And they that hate me love death. '^^ 
 
 "For the Wisdom that is from above is first 
 pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be en- 
 treated, full of mercy and good fruits, without 
 partiality and without hypocrisy. ''^ 
 
 1 Proverbs. 2 St. James. 
 
*^ There are few that realize . . . what America 
 will yet do; but the divine appointment of that 
 participation will become manifest in a series 
 of world-changes, in a world-union and an ulti- 
 mate world-happiness, that are quite beyond the 
 present understanding or belief of either religion 
 or nations." — '^Woodrow Wilson and fhe 
 World's Peace/' by George D. H err on. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 Intuition and the Times 
 
 **When revolutions occur it is man's laws 
 only, not God's, that are affected. This is be- 
 cause man's laws are not laws at all, but merely 
 attempts to establish something as law. God's 
 laws, on the other hand, are not subject to revolu- 
 tion. They are made right in the beginning, and 
 are unchangeable. Man's only connection with 
 them is to discover them, apply them and con- 
 form to them. No nation or community could 
 be so ignorant as to try to start a revolution 
 against the law of gravitation, but revolutions 
 will continue to occur so long as men set down 
 their opinions in a formal way and try to dig- 
 nify them with the name of the law." 
 
 — Ellis 0. Jones, in Life. {New York.) 
 
 This is the statement of a transcendent 
 truthi which would do honor to any period- 
 ical printing it, and is especially note- 
 worthy coming as it does from a humorous 
 magazine. It should be a marker in every 
 man's Bible. If the nations of the earth 
 
 149 
 
150 INTUITION 
 
 could in truth know that ** Man's laws are 
 not laws at all, but merely attempts to es- 
 tablish something as law," the millennium 
 would indeed be at hand. Here is the 
 key that unlocks the inequalities, the in- 
 justices, the failures, the defects, of the 
 the civilizations of all time, likewise the 
 weaknesses of present day political, so- 
 cial, industrial, marriage and educational 
 systems. It must have been some such 
 idea that prompted Lincoln when he said, 
 *^I do not know anything about God being 
 with us, but I am fearfully interested to 
 know if we are with God. ' ' 
 
 The trend of our ongoing in the various 
 states of consciousness is ever upward, if 
 not in the visible body then in our in- 
 visible existence. Visible birth is death 
 to an invisible world; death of this in- 
 carnation is birth into an invisible world. 
 Bearing in mind that with God time is not 
 we perceive the meaning of the words of 
 Jesus Christ when he said, ** Before Abra- 
 ham was, I AM." As you, dear reader, 
 are now, you are the product or manifesta- 
 tion of all you have ever thought or learned 
 
AND THE TIMES 151 
 
 in past incarnations, plus what you have 
 acquired in this. 
 
 The beginning of human existence as we 
 know it is referred to in the Bible as that 
 of the ' ' first Adam. ' ' The goal or ultimate 
 end of existence (of the realization of 
 which we are capable) is the consciousness 
 of the *4ast Adam'' — ^Jesus Christ — ^in 
 which consciousness we too can say, ^^I 
 and my Father are one. ' ' Previous to that 
 point we are in the realm where it seems 
 to us that God and we are two, any realiza- 
 tion of unity being less than absolute. 
 
 That Adam-consciousness in which man 
 awakens from the plane of the dumb brute 
 to the realization of being something 
 higher is eloquently portrayed in the lines 
 of Hugh J. Hughes: 
 
 *'A shape looked up from eating herb and grain. 
 It chanced to see the stars, and with that look 
 Came Wonderment, and Longing in its train. 
 The food untasted lay. A beating pain 
 Smote at its forehead, but it looked again 
 And yet again, and then it thought. 
 Lo ! Man stood upright as the stars did wane." 
 
 Every human being is expressing him- 
 self at some point on the pathway leading 
 
152 INTUITION 
 
 to the consciousness of the second Adam 
 — unless indeed he has already attained 
 that consciousness. The Bible is the story 
 of this ongoing of the soul in its visible 
 incarnations. 
 
 It should be borne in mind that man 
 physical manifests on this earth in count- 
 less millions, man intellectual in fewer mil- 
 lions, and man spiritual but rarely. In- 
 deed the one signal instance of the abso- 
 lute spiritual consciousness of which we 
 have any record is that of Jesus Christ 
 There are many persons, however, in whose 
 lives the spiritual nature is more or less 
 dominant. Abraham Lincoln was a con- 
 spicuous example of this type. 
 
 Nature, Spirit, God, call the First Cause 
 what you will, continually brings to each 
 man by means of his own thoughts just 
 those experiences and lessons that tend 
 toward his normal unf oldment, at the same 
 time leaving him free to express himself 
 without interference with his will. Lest 
 man become a mere automaton God does 
 not compel his obedience. 
 
 Everything done on the human plane is 
 
AND THE TIMES 153 
 
 by means of the co-operation of man and 
 God. Man cannot breathe or wink an eye- 
 lid without using God-power. God, being 
 invisible and universal, has no means of 
 expressing himself in the realm of human- 
 ity except by personifying in man, and 
 actually does nothing otherwise. 
 
 For instance, the silent thought-call and 
 collective cry of a multitude of enslaved 
 Afro-Americans contributed toward the 
 coming into manifestation of Abraham 
 Lincoln, even as the Jewish race for cen- 
 turies consciously *^held the thought" that 
 they should eventually be the progenitors 
 of the visible Messiah. The woes, the 
 sufferings, the tragedies of the black man 
 had their echo in the throbbing heart of 
 the Great Emancipator, and indeed were 
 out-pictured in his life and death. Thus 
 do man and God co-operate in every 
 variety of manifestation. 
 
 Through unerring application of these 
 laws Emperor William of Germany is the 
 principal human factor, instrument and 
 agent in whom is concentrated or personi- 
 fied the sum total of the virtues and weak- 
 nesses of the German nation. A similar 
 
154 INTUITION 
 
 statement may be made with regard to 
 President Wilson and the American na- 
 tion. Each is, for the time being, the per- 
 sonification of the collective consciousness 
 of his people. 
 
 By those deficient in the perception of 
 spiritual attributes Mr. Wilson has been 
 criticised, maligned and misunderstood. 
 He has been accused of lacking imagina- 
 tion, mental elasticity, the gift of govern- 
 ment, the ability to lead or to interpret 
 the spirit of the people. The truth is that 
 all the time he has discerned not less but 
 more than his critics, that he is possessed 
 of not less but more scope, vision and 
 statesmanship than they have had the per- 
 ception to appreciate. 
 
 At crucial times, when confronted with 
 international crises, when most men would 
 be prone to seek the advice of other minds 
 the President goes by himself, it may be 
 for a long walk or ride in the country. 
 After the sending of a certain important 
 note to Germany he retired to the White 
 House and was not seen for two whole 
 
AND THE TIMES 155 
 
 days. When he returns from these periods 
 of solitude his mind is made up and nothing 
 can change it. As to the matter in hand 
 he has been receptive to the Divine Idea. 
 He then acts fearlessly and consequently 
 with power. This process gives him his 
 serenity, poise, and apparent indifference 
 to criticism. Also it explains the buoyant 
 health of a man in many respects far from 
 rugged. 
 
 At the beginning of President Wilson's 
 second administration the New York 
 Evening Post said: 
 
 *'We see him gifted in speech; with few close 
 personal friends; stoical in adversity; modest 
 in victory; silent under abuse; resolute to the 
 point of being obstinate; often too slow though 
 sometimes swift as light; an idealist, but also a 
 prudent and adroit man. He undoubtedly has 
 a passion for the high things of the United 
 States. . . . Whatever he has done or failed to 7 
 
 do he has made the American Presidency glitter » 
 
 beyond any throne." 
 
 These are the characteristics of a man 
 distinctly intuitive. With thought-proc- 
 esses entirely at variance from those of the 
 
156 INTUITION 
 
 typical politician and often not in accord- 
 ance with those of the typical statesman, 
 President Wilson has piloted the nation 
 through many international situations 
 both complex and delicate, and done so at 
 times with a cleverness and an insight al- 
 most uncanny, yet with a foresight little 
 short of divine. This has been explained 
 in many ways, but the secret is intuitive 
 consciousness. No public man since Lin- 
 coln has been the embodiment of intuition 
 as fully as has Woodrow Wilson. ^ 'w^- 
 A recent writer, speaking of President 
 Wilson, whom he calls *^our first interna- 
 tional statesman,'' pictures his intuitive 
 spirit in the f olowing vivid and vigorous 
 language : 
 
 **So far from being a materialist, his advocacy 
 of a world-democracy is in order that there 
 may be a sphere for the true spiritual enfold- 
 ment of both the collectivity and the individual. 
 It is for this he has set before the single soul, 
 and before ^ach citizenry, the goal of a just and 
 joyous society of nations. . . . 
 
 ' ' Our President, acting now with such creative 
 comprehension, is able so to act because he 
 awaited the precise psychological moment. He 
 studied the dial of the world's destiny; he 
 
AND THE TIMES 157 
 
 watched the hands on the clock of God. With 
 a patience as wise as it is magnanimous, with a 
 spiritual shrewdness that reveals his kinship 
 with Moses and Cavoir and Lincoln, with a 
 prescience that appears nearly supernormal, he 
 held broodingly and bravely to his appointed 
 times. . . . 
 
 ''Ere long we shall perceive that there is not 
 in all history a case of a nation being so adroitly 
 and sublimely led out of one state of mind into 
 another, and led with such psychological per- 
 ception and mastery. If the nation, like the 
 individual, has a subconscious mind, apparently 
 it was this man alone who entered into it, so far 
 as America was concerned — not entered only, 
 but brought its deep-hid desires to the thresh- 
 hold of practical politics, and translated them 
 into conscious democratic purpose. ... 
 
 ' * And although Germany has lost and human- 
 ity won, it is through the miraculous tact, the 
 international statesmanship, that held sway over 
 this one man's onward and unchanging pur- 
 pose. . . . 
 
 ''He knows, too, how to dispense with banners, 
 and how to accord his most revolutionary meas- 
 ures to the 'still, small voice.' His largest 
 intentions are hid within himself; he tells as 
 little as possible beforehand; he prefers to let 
 his mind be revealed by results rather than 
 promises. ' '^ 
 
 1 From "Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace," by George 
 D. Herron. 
 
158 INTUITION 
 
 The New York Times, under the cap- 
 tion, ^^ Wilson has the New AVill," prints 
 an interesting article in which the distinc- 
 tion between the spiritual consciousness 
 and that of the rational mind is, perhaps 
 unwittingly, set forth as follows : 
 
 ** Charles Gray Shaw, Professor of philosophy 
 at New York University, sees a new 'will' typi- 
 fied in certain of our citizens, notably in Presi- 
 dent Wilson. 
 
 '' 'The new psychology,' he told his class, 'has 
 discovered the new will — the will that turns in- 
 ward upon the brain instead of passing out 
 through hand or tongue. Wilson has this new 
 will. To Roosevelt, Wilson seems weak and 
 vacillating, but that is because T. R. knows 
 nothing about the new will. T. R. has a primi- 
 tive mind, but one of the most advanced type. 
 In the T. R. brain, so to speak, will means set 
 teeth, clenched fists, hunting and rough riding. 
 
 *' 'Wilson may be regarded as creating the 
 new volition or as having discovered it. At any 
 rate, Wilson possesses and uses the new volition, 
 and it remains to be seen whether the political 
 world at home and abroad is ready for it. Here 
 it is significant to observe that the Germans, who 
 are psychologists, recognize the fact that a new 
 and important function of the mind has been 
 focussed upon them. The Germans fear and 
 respect the Wilson will of note- writing more than 
 
AND THE TIMES 159 
 
 they would have dreaded the T. R. will with its 
 teeth and fists.' *' 
 
 All is in accordance with law. It has 
 not merely happened that Woodrow Wilson 
 is President of the United States during 
 these crucial and convulsive times. The 
 votes that placed him in the executive 
 chair at Washington were but the visible 
 product and manifestation of the One In- 
 visible Power operating through human 
 agencies as a medium or channel. 
 
 Mr. Wilson's errors have been the mis- 
 takes of a man conscientious and sincere 
 feeling his way intuitively amid new and 
 colossal problems and responsibilities well- 
 nigh unthinkable. It is a safe assumption 
 that no man has regretted those mistakes 
 more than he. Even if there were mis- 
 takes, or if his friends misunderstood and 
 the nation criticised, or if in all the world 
 there was no one who perceived, sym- 
 pathized and appreciated, still he must 
 ** tread the winepress alone.'' For the in- 
 tuitive way is the individual way. One 
 must go alone and yet not alone. Its path 
 is never wide enough for two to wal^ 
 
160 INTUITION 
 
 abreast. The compensations, however, are 
 beyond compare. If in fact there be no 
 loneliness like the loneliness of living up 
 to one's ideals in the face of misunder- 
 standings, criticisms, condemnation and 
 hostility, then the more true is it that there 
 is no comradeship like the consciousness of 
 the presence, approval, co-operation and 
 love of Spirit. 
 
 Lincoln knew this aloneness, and in this 
 respect no one has more perfectly inter- 
 preted Lincoln than has Woodrow Wil- 
 son. It requires an artist to discover an 
 artist, a genius to interpret a genius. 
 When, through the Lincoln Farm Associa- 
 tion, the log-cabin which was Lincoln's 
 birth-place became a nation's shrine, Presi- 
 dent Wilson, in his speech of acceptance, 
 said: 
 
 **I nowhere get the impression in any nar- 
 rative or reminiscence that the writer had in 
 fact penetrated to the heart of his mystery, or 
 that any man could penetrate to the heart of it. 
 That brooding spirit had no real familiars. 
 
 '*I get the impression that it never spoke out 
 in complete self-revelation, and that it could 
 not reveal itself completely to anyone. It was 
 
AND THE TIMES 161 
 
 a very lonely spirit that looked out from under- 
 neath those shaggy brows and comprehended 
 men without fully communing with them, as if, 
 in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, 
 it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where 
 no man looked on. There is a very holy and 
 very terrible isolation for the conscience of every 
 man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for 
 others as well as himself, for a nation as well 
 as for individuals. Their privacy no man can 
 intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit 
 for the right perhaps no man can assist. This 
 strange child of the cabin kept company with 
 invisible things, as born into no intimacy but 
 that of its own silently assembling and deplojdng 
 thoughts. ' ' 
 
 Among the items in public print indicat- 
 ing the German consciousness the follow- 
 ing are selected as typical: 
 
 ** *Our emperor, our chancellor, our leading 
 men, like our people, have no equals,' said Dr. 
 Lasson, professor of philosophy at Berlin. 
 
 ** 'We are the salt of the earth,' the Kaiser 
 assured his subjects; also, 'the German people 
 will be the rock of granite upon which our Lord 
 God can build and complete the work of culture 
 in the world.' 
 
 *'In 1891, William said to his soldiers, 'Body 
 and soul you belong to me. If I command you 
 
162 INTUITION 
 
 to shoot your fathers and mothers . . . you 
 must follow my command without a murmur. ' 
 
 **At other times he said, 'Only one is master 
 in this empire, and I am that one'; *It is my 
 business to decide if there shall be war*; *You 
 must all indeed have one will, but that is my 
 will; there is only one law and that is my law.' 
 
 **When he declared war in 1914 he said, 'On 
 me as the German Emperor the spirit of God 
 has descended. I am his weapon, his sword, his 
 vice-regent.' " 
 
 It should be borne in mind that, irre- 
 spective of our ideas the above is (or was) 
 truth to its authors and to a large portion 
 of the German people. 
 
 We assume that we are in a higher con- 
 sciousness than the Germans, but it is well 
 not to forget that the contrary is assumed 
 by them. It is evident that the assump- 
 tion alone is not conclusive evidence in 
 either case. Who is to decide this 1 and by 
 what standards is the decision to be made ? 
 That cause which most perfectly *^ dis- 
 covers God's laws, applies them, and con- 
 forms to them" must ultimately triumph, 
 irrespective of physical might or even 
 apparent physical victory. That cause 
 which is merely ** attempting to establish 
 
AND THE TIMES 163 
 
 something as law'' must inevitably dis- 
 cover how puerile in fact is that attempt. 
 Speaking along this line Henri Bergson, 
 the French philosopher, says : 
 
 ** Militarized Germany lives on the Bismarck- 
 ian ideal that might makes right, and she prac- 
 tices the cult of brute force. France has the 
 ideal of justice and liberty on her side. Her 
 ideal will kill the German ideal." 
 
 The law is, as we have seen, that the 
 higher transcends the lower. The con- 
 sciousness, or as Bergson terms it, the 
 ** ideal" of France, England, America and 
 the rest will, assuming that it is in har- 
 mony with God's laws, transcend or **kill" 
 the German ideal. 
 
 It requires no prophet to perceive that 
 with a change in the collective conscious- 
 ness of the German people will inevitably 
 come a change of leadership. Our * * School- 
 master President," while forced to wage 
 war against Germany, with an intuitive 
 perception of these principles, has left no 
 stone unturned to educate the German 
 people to a higher consciousness. History 
 affords no more interesting or significant 
 
164 [INTUITION 
 
 instance of a nation's ruler applying a 
 far-reaching spiritual principle in interna- 
 tional affairs than that of President Wil- 
 son's drawing the line of demarcation 
 between the attitude of the German people 
 and that of its leaders. Whatever else the 
 German war is, it is a war of education. 
 Since the Lusitania occurrence and all 
 through the period of much ridiculed 
 *^ note-writing" the President has never 
 lost sight of the world-wide educational 
 responsibilities of his exalted position. 
 That those efforts should at times meet 
 with resistance and even venomous opposi- 
 tion is merely evidence that the vitals of 
 Prussianism have been reached. Lower 
 realms of consciousness, when in danger 
 of dethronement, are ever ready to resort 
 to ridicule, treachery, cruelty, even cruci- 
 fixion, if seemingly thereby their reign may 
 be perpetuated. Woodrow Wilson by his 
 educational policy is doing more to win the 
 war and establish the world's peace than 
 as yet appears. It being true that * * They 
 that take the sword shall perish with the 
 sword," it may be that when Prussianism 
 is defeated — and defeated it will be — ^that 
 
AND THE TIMES 165 
 
 the final and real victory will prove to be 
 a non-military one. 
 
 Unity is a fundamental spiritual prin- 
 ciple. Its antithesis is separation. The 
 rational mind is eternally seeing differ- 
 ences, discontinuity, separation — the spir- 
 itual mind is ever uniting. Because na- 
 tions and religions have been the product 
 of mental rather than spiritual thought 
 their history, with a few exceptions, has 
 been the history of dissension, schisms, off- 
 shoots and separation. 
 
 The spiritual mind has for its basis 
 unity, whose twin is balance, A century 
 and a half ago the United States learned 
 the principle of unity as applied politically, 
 and sounded it in the first word of its name. 
 It applied the principle of balance in the 
 adjustment between the legislative, judicial 
 and executive departments of government, 
 and between the powers ®f the states and 
 central government. Because thus founded 
 on spiritual principles the United States 
 of America has outgrown its swaddling 
 clothes and is become a leader among 
 nations. 
 
166 INTUITION 
 
 The German Empire, it is true, is 
 founded on a certain unity between states, 
 but the fundamental purpose is military 
 and therefore a selfish one, while the ele- 
 ment of balance as we know it is lacking. 
 Germany's so-called unity personifies 
 violence, conquest, cruelty, bondage, hatred, 
 injustice, selfishness; America personifies 
 peace, good- will, liberty, fraternity, justice, 
 humanity. With little more than physical, 
 industrial and military unity as a basis, 
 in the arrogance of its ignorance and in- 
 flated with visions of its own self-import- 
 ance, Prussianism now seeks to dominate 
 the world! Prussianism is ** personality** 
 gone rampant. 
 
 In religious toleration, in the common 
 school system, the political affiliation of 
 states, the consolidation of railways, the 
 formation of trusts and in many other 
 ways the United States has sought the ap-^ 
 plication of the principle of unity within 
 her borders, but has held more or less 
 aloof from other nations lest she be caught 
 in ** entangling alliances." While busy 
 attending to her own development at home 
 
AND THE TIMES 167 
 
 she has been willing to pursue a live-and- 
 let-live policy abroad. The principle of 
 unity, however, being spiritual, is like the 
 leaven that leavens the whole lump. Once 
 actually set into operation its momentum 
 becomes automatic and inevitable. This is 
 one of the proofs of its spirituality. The 
 great spiritual principle and incentive back 
 of the present war is that the nations of 
 the world may in truth and in fact express 
 the principle of unity. 
 
 Every thought has its action and its 
 reaction. The thought behind our govern- 
 ment's refusal to accept the entire Boxer 
 indemnity had its favorable reaction in 
 later years in the strengthening of our 
 friendship with China. Whatever the 
 thought behind Belgium's Congo atrocities, 
 the reaction upon the Belgians has seem- 
 ingly been cataclysmic. Irrespective of 
 ** badness," ** goodness," or *' personal- 
 ity," law on any plane operates auto- 
 matically until it comes in conflict with 
 laws on a higher plane. The law of elec- 
 tricity would have operated just as readily 
 for Nero as for Jesus Christ. Obedience 
 is the only condition. * ^ God is no respecter 
 
168 INTUITION 
 
 of persons. '* God loves the Eeal Selves 
 of the Germans as much and as truly as 
 he loves any other people or race. **The 
 sun shines on the just and on the unjust.'' 
 But Spirit through its laws will not per- 
 manently tolerate unused faculties or re- 
 sources on the part of individuals or 
 peoples. Nor is there time ever to test 
 on our oars. To become stagnant is the 
 beginning of death. Onward is ever the 
 march of Being. 
 
 This war is far more than a mere 
 physical conflict between opposing armies. 
 The civilized peoples of the world have 
 been too self-satisfied, too indifferent to 
 the realities of life. Multitudes have 
 neglected to use their thought-faculties 
 and the interior resources of their Being. 
 A noted English writer,^ speaking along 
 these lines recently, said: 
 
 *'In every civilized nation the mass of the 
 people are inert and indifferent. Some even 
 make a pretense of justifying their inertness. 
 Why, they ask, should we stir at all? Is there 
 such a thing as duty to improve the earth? 
 
 iFrom "The Tyranny of Shams," by Joseph McCabe. 
 
AND THE TIMES 169 
 
 What is the meaning or purpose of life? or has 
 it a purpose V 
 
 Many persons are disturbed by the ap- 
 parent inability of Christianity to cope 
 with the present chaotic conditions of the 
 world. We see ^* Christian'' peoples doing 
 their utmost to kill each other, and praying 
 for success in so doing (!). In ways un- 
 thinkable men are doing collectively what 
 under no circumstances would they do in- 
 dividually. The world-war is a war of 
 education but not of man-made brand. 
 Most education as we know it is exoteric. 
 True education is esoteric — from within. 
 By means of this war countless millions are 
 literally shaken out of their old conscious- 
 ness and compelled to think new thoughts, 
 nolens volens. Habit, disinclination, con- 
 ventionality, conservatism, resistance, are 
 all as nothing. Great numbers are using 
 their mental faculties who hitherto lived 
 an existence little more than physical. 
 Countless others are voluntarily seeking 
 spiritual truth who were formerly indif- 
 ferent or even hostile to ideas above the 
 mental plane. It behooves us to see to it 
 
170 INTUITION 
 
 individually and collectively that we are 
 sound and just in our consciousness of 
 fundamental principles and the application 
 thereof. 
 
 Already, however, there are signs of 
 hope and the light of another era is 
 dawning : 
 
 **A11 those who have watched with seeing eyes 
 and understanding minds the sublime though 
 terrible drama enacted in Europe, have re- 
 ported not that nations are being decimated or 
 destroyed, but that new and greater nations are 
 being born. Nation after nation rises to new 
 and unexampled heights of self-sacrifice, ardu- 
 ous toil, simple living, and uncomplaining 
 dying. The spiritual as well as the material 
 life of the nations at war is being transmuted 
 into something different and more precious. 
 
 *'From the warfare 'there leads a path,' as 
 that which Dante found leading out of the in- 
 ferno, a path 'discovered not by sight,' but *by 
 the sound of brooklet,' a brooklet of blood that 
 trickles along the hidden way by which is to be 
 reached the pure air of democracy's purgatorial 
 struggle. 
 
 *'The spirit which has walked through this 
 hell in Europe is the guide to the superstate 
 which our country is even now so anxiously seek- 
 ing, for it is indeed searching for the way of 
 salvation, from its inefficiencies of government, 
 
AND THE TIMES 171 
 
 from its multiform public and private wastes, 
 from its crass materialism, from its class hatreds, 
 from its ignorances and its intemperances.''^ 
 
 **A world citizenry is suddenly springing into 
 being; and it may not be long till it takes pos- 
 session of its own. . . . There are many signs 
 that the people may soon open their eyes, be- 
 holding each other as members of one eternal 
 family, never divided in reality but only in ap- 
 pearance nor made enemies by else than the 
 perennial exploitage of parasitic systems and 
 sovereignties. . . . 
 
 ''The war will burn up the hatreds of both 
 the present and the past. There will be a puri- 
 fication of the world from hatred before long. 
 The foolishness of hate is already apparent to 
 the soldiers in the trenches, and to their fathers 
 and mothers and wives at home. I have seen it 
 — and I dare to declare it that there never was 
 so little of hate in the world as now. Hate was 
 never so near to extinction as it is at this 
 most embattled moment of man's planetary 
 career. . . . 
 
 ''Despite the despairs and illusions of these 
 blood-drunken days I also see that the world is 
 instinct with an unwonted expectancy, with a 
 sense of some near Messianic intervention and 
 pervasion, and that a change of upward and 
 universal scope is preparing. At any hour, in 
 
 1 John H. Finley (Commissioner of Education for New York) 
 in the New York Times. 
 
172 INTUITION 
 
 the twinkling of an eye, the change may come, 
 and an indwelling and Divine Social Presence 
 enfold and unite the aware and glad peoples."^ 
 
 The fact is that the war is upsetting old 
 standards and world methods and is usher- 
 ing in the day of intuition. While the 
 typical German consciousness is unthink- 
 able to France, England or America, it is 
 nevertheless true that because of the war 
 these nations also will materially revise 
 their standards and consciousness. Never 
 again shall we go back to some of the 
 national and international methods and 
 political expediencies of even a short five 
 years ago. It must be our business to see 
 to it that we discover more of God's *4aws 
 not subject to revolution, apply them, and 
 conform to them.*' Spirit cares even less 
 about victory on the part of a nation or 
 an individual than about a true spiritual 
 awakening. 
 
 Multitudes realize that there is in 
 process a great Cosmic Movement for 
 which adequate interpretation seems lack- 
 ing. A notable fact is that this movement 
 
 1 From "Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace," by George 
 D. Herron. 
 
AND THE TIMES 173 
 
 has no visible leader, though the minds of 
 many are ready to ascribe to it the One 
 Great Leader, and to associate it with the 
 second coming of Jesus Christ. 
 
 The peoples of the earth are being com- 
 pelled to line up on one side or the other 
 of the conflict. The German-Americans 
 within our borders have been constrained 
 to renounce a dual allegiance or suffer the 
 consequences. The youth of the land are 
 imperatively required to serve their coun- 
 try or be forever branded as cowards. 
 There is not one of us but who is forced 
 in some fundamental way to make per- 
 sonal choice for or against the great move- 
 ment, and what is true in America is true 
 in practically all civilized nations. These 
 facts are of far-reaching significance. 
 There are those who see in them the ful- 
 filling of Biblical prophecy and such is 
 doubtless the case, but no prophecy is re- 
 quisite to those intuitively awake to the 
 trend of world-wide events. ^'Can ye not 
 discern the signs of the times?'' 
 
 The leader is the One Great Leader 
 whom Kaiser William and his anti-Christ 
 cohorts have omitted to take into their 
 
174 INTUITION 
 
 calculations ; the Leader who in his visible 
 coming organized no system of worship, 
 established no church, left no code of laws, 
 wrote no gospel, was secretary of nothing, 
 was president of nothing ; although he was 
 the greatest teacher of all time he never 
 styled himself ** Professor,'' and though he 
 was the greatest healer of all time he never 
 called himself ** Doctor'' Jesus Christ. He 
 never classified men as members or non- 
 members of any church or sect, but he 
 divided all men for all time by means of 
 the simple formula, *'He that is not with 
 me is against me. ' ' And to-day the tribula- 
 tions of the nations arise because of the 
 forced line-up under this formula. 
 
 In one respect the future of the world 
 is certain — it will be governed by spiritual 
 principles and heart-power and not by 
 force and mere intellect. The Germans 
 have tried to rule by these and the world 
 bleeds and weeps. 
 
 In seeking a co-ordination of the facts 
 involved in this evolutionary movement 
 certain ideas stand out with great signifi- 
 cance. Among these are: 
 
AND THE TIMES 175 
 
 That every man, regardless of race, 
 color, creed or nationality, is an expression 
 of Divinity; That the real Christ of every 
 man is within him whether we see it or 
 not and is identical with that Divinity; 
 That the higher consciousness is incom- 
 prehensible to the lower until the lower 
 becomes it; That the lower consciousness 
 can never rightfully be the object of selfish 
 exploitation on the part of the higher; 
 That the teachings of the Christ were for 
 all and not for the select few. 
 
 These facts, combined with the leader- 
 lessness of the present Cosmic Movement, 
 supplement each other, and from their 
 correlation there may be deduced: 
 
 That ihrougJb the quickening of indi- 
 vidual Christ consciousness the Great In- 
 visible Leader is unifying the thought and 
 action of the inhabitants of the world. 
 
 That this is being done collectively as 
 far as collective consciousness will permit, 
 but individually without exception. 
 
 That the supreme lesson for us at the 
 present time individually is to identify our 
 consciousness with the Divine Idea, and to 
 express it by becoming It as far and as 
 
176 INTUITION 
 
 fast as possible. This is not resistance to 
 hut co-operation with the Great Invisible 
 Leader, by merging our individual con- 
 sciousness of justice, peace, harmony, love 
 and life — the attributes of Divinity — into 
 the collective consciousness of the world\ 
 Thus shall there be fusion of God and man 
 in universal manifestation. Thus shall 
 there be the ushering in of the new and 
 Divine Order, 
 
 It is resistance to this Divine Order that 
 is producing chaos among the nations. By 
 our attitude as individuals we either har- 
 monize with or set up opposing forces 
 against the great Cosmic Movement. We 
 do this by non-resistance and co-operation 
 or by resistance, as the case may be. 
 
 The principle of non-resistance has been 
 little understood and practiced less, for the 
 reason that being a spiritual principle it 
 can only be spiritually perceived. To 
 those who comply with them its laws are 
 as available and as practical as the law 
 of gravitation. Non-resistance is not so 
 much an act as a consciousness, but a con- 
 sciousness which forms the most positive 
 
AND THE TIMES 177 
 
 and absolute basis for action or non-action. 
 The significance of ^^Eesist not evil,'* con- 
 sists less in letting some one walk over us 
 than in the intuitive discernment that therd 
 being no substance, power, or life in evil, 
 there is nothing to resist. 
 
 We shall perceive the principle of non- 
 resistance the more readily by attempting 
 to apply it individually rather than col- 
 lectively. President Wilson, for instance, 
 may be a non-resistant at heart but know- 
 ing that the people of the nation collec- 
 tively are not ready for non-resistance as 
 a national policy he wisely remains silent 
 on the subject. 
 
 Non-resistance is not negation. To be 
 non-resistant is not to be lacking in moral 
 courage — quite the contrary — though many 
 possessing mere physical courage so think. 
 The advantages of non-resistance are that 
 one is thereby allied with truth and power. 
 The disadvantages are only apparent — not 
 real. 
 
 Assertiveness and combativeness are the 
 masculine, silence and non-resistance the 
 feminine of consciousness. Combativeness 
 is usually assertive, noisy, bulljdng and 
 
178 INTUITION 
 
 spectacular. Non-resistance includes the 
 attributes of silence, poise, fearlessness 
 and meekness. Washington and Lincoln 
 when maligned were non-resistant. Jesus 
 Christ when accused before Pilate was non- 
 resistant. His silence was due to his per- 
 fect perception of the nothingness of what 
 Pilate stood for, and the futility of words 
 under the circumstances. 
 
 There is a distinction between non-re- 
 sistance and pacifism. Pacifists arouse 
 antagonism because they are mentally and 
 actually resistant. Simple non-resistance 
 alone arouses little or no antagonism. The 
 typical pacifist, however, is a belligerent 
 at heart — ^he feels called upon to combat 
 others in the maintenance of their views 
 and tries to compel them to think and do 
 as he thinks and does. 
 
 The true disciple of non-resistance is 
 non-resistant even to his neighbor's belief 
 in resistance, acknowledges his sincerity 
 and accords him perfect freedom therein. 
 Intuitively perceiving that there is nothing 
 ^no evil — to resist, he pursues the even 
 tenor of his way, not opposing you or me 
 
AND THE TIMES 179 
 
 in our right to do as we wish, nor resisting 
 the right of the people to pursue their 
 collective policy. Through a spirit of 
 kindness and with perfect consistency, for 
 instance, he might even assist his brother 
 militarist with his military preparations. 
 If drafted to military service the non-re- 
 sistant would serve. Were he inwardly 
 true to the spiritual principle involved his 
 individual experiences would be such that 
 it would not suffer outrage nor he personal 
 violence. 
 
 At the present state of our collective 
 unfoldment as a people it is not to be ex- 
 pected that America could or should adopt 
 non-resistance as a national policy, but 
 everyone who perceives the principle is 
 free to practice it individually. 
 
 If we were to bring captured German 
 soldiers to America and with the help of 
 our de-hyphenated and truly loyal German- 
 Americans educate them, by means of 
 printed matter and lectures, in the prin- 
 ciples of Americanism and as to why we 
 are in this war, later returning them to 
 Germany, that would be an application of 
 the law of non-resistance so far as it went. 
 
180 INTUITION 
 
 It is easy to enumerate reasons why this 
 should not or could not be done, in reply 
 to which it need only be said that when 
 we comply with a spiritual principle the 
 principle itself operates and ultimately 
 nullifies all seeming reasons against it. 
 When some one with a perception of these 
 principles applies them people oftentimes 
 ascribe the results to chance, not perceiv- 
 ing that the unexpected or seemingly 
 miraculous is simply the result of an ap- 
 plication of the law, and that nothing 
 merely happens. 
 
 If toward German prisoners America 
 practices some such policy, if she refrains 
 from reprisals, if she is true and steadfast 
 in her adherence to the sublime and God- 
 given doctrine that ** Governments derive 
 their just powers from the consent of the 
 governed," if when peace is declared she 
 refuses to be a party to any punitive in- 
 demnities, then in these respects will she 
 be practicing national non-resistance in 
 truth and in fact. After the lessons of the 
 Civil war these are but the logical steps 
 for her fearlessly to pursue — to do less 
 would be to be false to her high traditions. 
 
AND THE TIMES 181 
 
 Non-resistance may be expressed as 
 ostracism, and most effectively so. Ostra- 
 cism is exclusion from common privileges, 
 social, commercial or political favor, but to 
 be spiritual such exclusion should be free 
 from bitterness, resentment, and overt acts 
 tending to injure the party excluded. The 
 question is often asked, Should the contest 
 between Prussianism and the Allies result 
 in a stalemate, ivJiat then? The answer is, 
 systematic and persistent social, commer- 
 cial and political ostracism of Germany and 
 the Germans. Such a policy on the part 
 of the Allied nations collectively and their 
 peoples individually would be overwhelm- 
 ingly effective in its results, and relatively 
 inexpensive from a money standpoint. 
 Nothing would be so far-reaching educa- 
 tionally or tend to arouse the Germans 
 from their present dense consciousness as 
 to the peace and welfare of the world. It 
 is doubtful if any other weapon, military 
 or non-military, would be more surely and 
 speedily victorious.^ 
 
 With every individual or collective at- 
 tempt to establish a higher consciousness 
 
 *See Appendix. 
 
182 INTUITION 
 
 in visible manifestation there comes a time 
 of testing, and the more spiritual the at- 
 tempt, the more acute the test. The psy- 
 chology of this principle is set forth in 
 the Biblical story of the Israelites at the 
 time of their coming to the Red Sea. In 
 spite of the waters in front God told Moses 
 to command them that they go forward. 
 Ignoring the whinings and complainings 
 of the children of Israel, Moses had the 
 faith to tell them also that they should see, 
 not the deliverance evolved by reasonings 
 on their part, but the '^salvation of the 
 Lord.'' And they saw it. The waters 
 parted and they walked to the other shore 
 on dry ground. **Not by might, nor by 
 power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of 
 Hosts.'' 
 
 It is just this dark point that forms 
 crises in the midst of any movement having 
 a spiritual basis. It is then true that 
 ** Darkest is the hour just before dawn." 
 These testing times are in accordance with 
 psychological and spiritual laws and in 
 fact occur not infrequently in the history 
 of men and of nations. Early in the 
 
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 present war, for instance, when Paris was 
 in peril from the hordes of the Hun, 
 
 *'The great marshal rolled up his maps and 
 said that the retreat had gone far enough. In 
 an order of the day which will be read by- 
 French children and by liberty lovers of all the 
 world to the last syllable of recorded time, 
 Marshal Joffre said to his men whom his own 
 genius had gathered between Paris and Verdun, 
 'The time has come to stand where we are and 
 to die in our tracks rather than yield another 
 step of France/ '* 
 
 What then occurred is now history. 
 
 Such a testing time came iVi the period 
 of the American Revolution in the dark 
 days of Valley Forge, when the shoeless 
 feet of the Colonial soldiers left trails of 
 blood in the winter snow. There was a 
 similar dark time during the Civil war, 
 just prior to the Proclamation of Eman- 
 cipation. That there will be periods of 
 gloom — testing times in reality — ere the 
 present world-wide cataclysm is ended and 
 peace restored is seemingly self-evident. 
 They may not come until we have poured 
 out our treasures of gold at home and our 
 
184 INTUITION AND THE TIMES 
 
 treasures of blood in Europe. Our very- 
 national structure may quiver — indeed it 
 may give way in places — and no man can 
 with certainty predict the form of the test- 
 ing. The collapse, if collapse there be, will 
 occur at those places where we have built 
 according to man^s and not according to 
 God's laws. 
 
 The supreme motive behind it all is the 
 self-same spiritual motive that these 
 United States stand for — unification. 
 
 The supreme power back of it all is love. 
 
 The supreme test of men and of nations 
 — attempt to dodge it as we will — is em- 
 bodied in the words, ' ' He that is not with 
 me is against me. ' ' There is no middle or 
 neutral ground. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 Since Chapter VII was written the au- 
 thor's attention has been called to Mr. Wal- 
 ter Wellman's significant article in the 
 New York Times of March 3, 1918, under 
 the caption, *^ Society of the World's Na- 
 tions to Thwart the Power of Prussia." 
 From the synopsis of his Program the fol- 
 lowing sections are pertinent to our sub- 
 ject: 
 
 * ' Safeguard the future by erection of a world 
 system in which this right and power to deny 
 the world's privileges and opportunities to 
 enemies of society are substituted for militarism 
 as world society's final controlling force and 
 means of maintaining security and order in the 
 world community." 
 
 * * Create this new system now, at once, by form- 
 ing a permanent society of nations to take over 
 control of this power and use it to compel Ger- 
 many to become a part of the system by con- 
 formance to its standards or suffer the penalty 
 185 
 
186 APPENDIX 
 
 of ifidefinite exclusion from tJie activities of the 
 world/' ^ 
 
 The above is at least a vast approach 
 to the practical application of the princi- 
 ples set forth in this book as to collective 
 non-resistance and an eventual world-wide 
 non-military program against Prnssianism. 
 The attention of the reader is invited to 
 the whole of Mr. Wellman's excellent and 
 powerful article. 
 
 The Authoe. 
 
 APPENDIX TO SECOND EDITION 
 
 Such criticisms of Intuition as have come 
 to my attention pertain to minor details 
 and in no way challenge the validity of the 
 principles set forth. The expediency of 
 citing Woodrow Wilson as an example of 
 the intuitive man has, it is true, been ques- 
 tioned. But I do not claim that Mr. Wil- 
 son is unvaryingly intuitive — few men are 
 — and if he has recently allowed intuition 
 to be supplanted by less lofty faculties of 
 
 ^ The Italics do not occur in the Timea article. 
 
APPENDIX 187 
 
 his mind, so mucli the worse for him, and 
 the citations herein become the more strik- 
 ing by comparison. 
 
 Nor do I deem it essential to omit refer- 
 ence to the world war and the momentous 
 events of its aftermath. This work being 
 a spiritual and psychological study, surely 
 we may with profit refer to current history 
 for the purpose of illustrating the princi- 
 ples under consideration. 
 
 Since Frederick Eawson has so clearly 
 shown us that affirmations should be used 
 impersonally I gladly acknowledge, on the 
 whole, the soundness of his position. But 
 that there are exceptions to this rule I am 
 convinced by the example of the Great 
 Master himself, who said, ^*I AM the resur- 
 rection," **I AM the way, the truth, and 
 the life." 
 
 There are persons who perceive a deep 
 spiritual meaning in these statements, and 
 would not forego the appropriation of 
 their affirmative values for the sake of any 
 hard and fast rule. Surely intuition will 
 inform us just when the rule does and 
 does not apply. 
 
 In considering the limited literature on 
 the subject I gladly pay tribute to W. Fred- 
 
188 APPENDIX 
 
 erick Keeler's broclinre, ^^ Intuition — Eow 
 to use it/' Following are some of the most 
 impressive of his statements: 
 
 ** Intuition is not a matter of first impression. 
 It is an impression which will stand its own test, 
 and it is never less than this. It is not a thing 
 of emotionalism. It is a thing of warm, steady, 
 still, tried and self -tested intelligence. * ' 
 
 "Reason is never original. Intuition is always 
 original. Reason never directly of itself brought 
 genius or talent. The reasoner contents himself 
 with reasoning about genius or talent." 
 
 * * Give hituition its place ; that place is first. 
 The intuitionalist does not lay reason aside but 
 he uses this direct sense first and reasons about 
 it afterwards. ' ' 
 
 **The untrained mind believes its questions 
 complex and their answers multiplex, therefore 
 the untrained mind stumbles and gropes along, 
 believing in complexities, and refusing sim- 
 plicity.'* 
 
 ''The reasoner never reaches anything more 
 definite than a conclusion and the intuitionalist 
 never reaches anything less than a conviction.' ' i 
 
 I wish I had written these myself. 
 
 The Authob. 
 
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