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Rh in our own organism, which are still and probably ever will be a sealed book to mankind. Far less, then, shall we be able to know what is really beyond sense-perception and thought-perception by mere sense and thought.

Intuition comes from within; thought from without. The former gives a face-to-face view of Reality; the latter gives an indirect view of it. Intuition, by a strange sympathy, sees it in its totality, while thought chops it up into parts. Every man has the power of intuition, as he has the power of thought. As thought can be cultivated, so Intuition can be developed. In Intuition we are in tune with Reality—with the world of Bliss, with the “unity in diversity” with the inner laws governing the spiritual world, with God.

How do we know that we exist? Through sense-perception? Do the senses first tell us that we exist—whence the consciousness of existence comes? That can never be. For the consciousness of existence is pre-supposed