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Rh It is very difficult to define Intuition, for it is too near to every one of us. Every one of us feels it. Do we not know what the consciousness of existence is? Every one knows it. It is too familiar to admit of definition. Ask one how he knows he exists. He will remain dumb. He knows it, but he cannot define it. He may try to explain, but his explanation does not reveal what he inwardly feels. Intuition of every form has this peculiar character.

The fourth method, explained in the last chapter, bases itself on Intuition. The practice of it leads us inward. The more earnest we are about it, the wider and surer will be our vision of Reality—God. It is through Intuition that humanity reaches Divinity, that the sensuous is brought into connection with the super-sensuous, and that the latter is felt to express itself in and through the sensuous. The influence of senses vanishes, intruding thoughts disappear, Bliss-God is realized, the