Spiritual intuition results from the intimate and profound alliance of intelligence and spontaneous wisdom.
“Time, all our times, are contained in something bigger—a space. The fullness of time becomes space, a vast, gentle wideness in which all possible outcomes, all our little histories, past, present, and future, all our hopes and dreams are already contained and mysteriously already fulfilled. The great mystics have called this the mercy, the intuition that the entire rainbow of times and colors, past and future, individual paths through history is all contained, flows out of and back into that great white light of the simple loving presence of God. The Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, and in that mercy, all our history, our possible pasts and possible futures, our lost loved ones and children never born are contained and fulfilled in a wholeness of love from which nothing can possibly be lost. It’s not a vision we can stand too long in the presence of.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Integral Light Dec 2021, 1:01:05 1.2 Chiastic Advent.
“Look at your machine as if from the outside. Now when you are dying, there is no sense to keep your reputation and your prestige. And now onwards, until the real last hour, aspire with persistence to receive the most you can from life that is of value. Develop your intuition. Take just a few moments each hour to watch the hour that passed without judgment and then tune yourself to extracting more from the following hour. Real life is not a change of activity, but a change of the quality of the activity. Destiny is destiny. Each one of us has to find himself in the whole order of things.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2019 Oct Gurdjieff-Teilhard, 3:22 07 – WED Q&A.
“A man who cannot perceive scale, visible or invisible, by means of his psychological understanding, will be shut to the intuitions that only faith opens out to every mind that hitherto has been asleep in the senses and the limited world revealed by them.” Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries, p1625
“Another sign of a higher level of Being is possession of Magnetic Center which means the intuition that this life is not explicable in terms of itself—or, what is the same—the power of seeing that two sorts of influences exist, A and B.” Commentaries, p1035
“Now, the distinctly practical teaching of the ninth Arcanum is that it is necessary to subordinate the directing intellectual initiative, as well as the flowing, spontaneous movement of thought, to the ‘heart of thought’, i.e., to the profound feeling that is found at the basis of the thinking that one sometimes designates ‘intellectual intuition’ and which is the ‘feeling for truth’. It is also necessary to subordinate both spontaneous imagination and actively directed imagination to the direction of the heart, i.e. to the profound feeling of moral warmth that one sometimes designates ‘moral intuition’ and which is the ‘feeling for beauty’. Lastly, it is necessary to subordinate spontaneous impulses and designs directed from the will to the profound feeling which accompanies them that one sometimes designates ‘practical intuition’ and which is the ‘feeling for the good’.” Meditations on the Tarot, Letter IX The Hermit p228-29
“Learning the difference between impulse and genuine intuition when you are receiving a prompting that quietly and effortlessly shoves you on is one of the really advanced and subtle skills of being able to inhabit your skin and reliably following this kind of spider’s web that we walk through. I would say that it’s really important to know the felt sense. To differentiate between the two, there’s the embodiment of what’s the experience like when there’s that one that automatically goes with impulse, what does it feel like in my body? And to know it well enough to know that when I have that, those series of sensations as differentiated from when this one is being moved, what is the felt sense experience of that?” Cynthia Bourgeault, Holy Trinity Law of Three, 1:40 3-08 Felt Sense.
“The nineteenth Arcanum—‘The Sun’—is that of the accomplished union of intelligence and spontaneous wisdom: the Arcanum of intuition. Intuition is what results from the intimate and profound alliance of intelligence and spontaneous wisdom. This relationship presupposes such purity of intention as is found only with a child, and it postulates such reciprocal confidence, without a shadow of doubt or suspicion, which belongs naturally to children. Lastly, this relationship excludes tendencies to domination and authority—to pose as a pontiff and to pride oneself on the eminence of the guru or master whose favors one enjoys—which tendencies are also foreign to children.” Meditations on the Tarot, Letter XIX The Sun p527-28
“A union between knowledge and being is necessary before understanding results. For this reason this knowledge that you are studying must be applied to your being. A parallel development of knowledge and being is necessary. That is, you must work on your being in accordance with the knowledge you are taught to raise your level of being. If you have something good in your being, you will be able to understand something of this Work and not merely know it.” Commentaries, p146.
Logion 37
His students asked him,
"When will you manifest yourself to us?
How long will it be
before we see you as you truly are?
Yeshua replied,
"On the day you strip yourselves naked
like those little children,
and take your clothes and trample them
on the ground under your feet without shame,
then you will be able
to look upon the son of the Living One
without fear."
Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise.
Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)
Meditations on the Tarot, Jeremy Tarcher, 1985
Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.
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