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Intuition : Faculty of Synthesis and Pure Integral Reason, Part 2

This post is simply redirection of material which was posted earlier in part 1. I have deleted the material from there to form this post since the earlier post was getting too long.

I have tried collecting the intuitive experiences of mathematicians, philosophers, artists, psychologists, scientists and mystics. Now it might be useful for me to recall the origin and academic definition of the word intuition.

Origin of the word intuition is from the Latin "intuitio": the act of contemplation and "intueri": to look at. Webster's defines the word as it is used today: 

1 a: immediate apprehension or cognition; b: knowledge or conviction gained by intuition; c: the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without rational thought or inference. 

2. quick and ready insight.

Since ancient times the concept of intuition has always had a mystical status as being ultra-experiential beyond senses. The concept is revived in the modern Theosophical literature rigorously and reasonably systematically since the topic is very elusive and tender.  There it is somewhat defined as below:

Concrete (or Effect based) Definition

Intuition is a subtle feeling (beyond our ordinary emotion), a receptor of subtler truth which is often the first avenue to the truth.

Intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness. Intuition is light itself, and when it is functioning, the world is seen as light (or in terms of energy rather than matter) and the light bodies of all forms become gradually apparent. This brings with it the ability to contact the light centre in all forms, and thus again an essential relationship is established and the sense of superiority and separateness recedes into the background. 

At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love which is, predominantly, in the nature of an identification with all beings through true compassion with absolute freedom from criticism, seeing the divine germ latent in all forms.

Intuition is a spiritual perception or pure reason, that dispels illusion (mental glamour) and is progressively perfected through contemplation (at the level of soul). Intuition, therefore, brings with its appearance three qualities: Illumination, Understanding, Love. These three words sum up the three qualities or aspects of the intuition and can be covered by the word, universality, or the sense of universal Oneness. The intuition is therefore the recognition in oneself, not theoretically but as a fact in one’s experience, of one’s complete identification with the Universal Mind, of one’s constituting a part of the great World Life, and of one’s participation in the eternal persisting Existence.

Intuition is the faculty through which progressive revelation of the processes of universe (macrocosm) as pertaining to humanity (microcosm) are revealed. 

Abstract (or Cause based) Definition (based on the 7 principles of Esoteric human constitution as visually depicted in the next post)

Intuition (or Buddhi) is the synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions: towards the Monad, and towards the integrated and, perhaps (even if only temporarily) coordinated and at-oned personality.

Intuition is a higher faculty than intellect or mind, a faculty latent in spiritual Triad; the power of pure reason, an expression of buddhic principle and lies beyond the world of ego and of form.

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