WHAT The MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT
Ernest Holmes
Cosmic Consciousness - Illumination (Continued)
"The intelligence in an animal which directs its actions and tells it where to go to find food and shelter, we call instinct. It is really Omniscience in the animal. The same quality, more highly developed, makes a conscious appearance in man and is what we call intuition. Intuition is God in man, revealing to him the Realities of Being; and just as instinct guides the animal, so would intuition guide man, if he would allow it to do so.
Here again we must be careful not to mistake a psychic impression for an intuitive one. Psychic impressions may control; intuition remains in the background and waits for recognition. "Behold I stand at the door and knock."
All arbitrary control of man must have stopped as soon as he came to a point of self-knowingness. From this point, he must discover himself; but intuition, which is nothing less than God in man, silently awaits his recognition and co-operation. The Spirit is always with us if we would but sense Its Presence. Mystics have felt this wonderful Power working from within; and have responded to It; and as certain evidence that they were not laboring under delusions, THEY HAVE ALL SENSED THE SAME THING. Had the impressions been psychic only, each would have seen and sensed a different thing, for each would merely have been seeing through the darkness of his own subjective mentality.
Cosmic Consciousness is not a mystery, it is the Self-Knowingness of God through man. The more complete the operation of that Power, the more complete is man's conscious mentality, for the illumined do not become less, but more, themselves. The greater the consciousness of God, the more complete must be the realization of the True Self - the Divine Reality."
Ernest Holmes
Cosmic Consciousness - Illumination (Continued)
"The intelligence in an animal which directs its actions and tells it where to go to find food and shelter, we call instinct. It is really Omniscience in the animal. The same quality, more highly developed, makes a conscious appearance in man and is what we call intuition. Intuition is God in man, revealing to him the Realities of Being; and just as instinct guides the animal, so would intuition guide man, if he would allow it to do so.
Here again we must be careful not to mistake a psychic impression for an intuitive one. Psychic impressions may control; intuition remains in the background and waits for recognition. "Behold I stand at the door and knock."
All arbitrary control of man must have stopped as soon as he came to a point of self-knowingness. From this point, he must discover himself; but intuition, which is nothing less than God in man, silently awaits his recognition and co-operation. The Spirit is always with us if we would but sense Its Presence. Mystics have felt this wonderful Power working from within; and have responded to It; and as certain evidence that they were not laboring under delusions, THEY HAVE ALL SENSED THE SAME THING. Had the impressions been psychic only, each would have seen and sensed a different thing, for each would merely have been seeing through the darkness of his own subjective mentality.
Cosmic Consciousness is not a mystery, it is the Self-Knowingness of God through man. The more complete the operation of that Power, the more complete is man's conscious mentality, for the illumined do not become less, but more, themselves. The greater the consciousness of God, the more complete must be the realization of the True Self - the Divine Reality."
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