University of Maine; Orono, Maine, USA

24 April 1970

Intuition is a push and a pull. It is an inner push and an outer pull. The push
comes from our aspiration. The pull comes from God’s Illumination.
When God invites an aspirant to dine with Him, it is the aspirant’s intuition
that immediately accepts the invitation. The mind is fond of investigation and
invention. The heart is fond of aspiration and unification. Intuition is fond of
illumination and supramentalisation. Intuition tells us in a flash what God looks
like. Realisation in a twinkling tells us who God is. Intuition, like an arrow, flies
towards the Goal. Realisation, like an expert dancer, eternally dances in the heart
of the Goal.
Intuition is the creation above the mind. Intuition is the freedom beyond the
mind. Intuition is the evolution of consciousness-light outside the boundaries of
the physical mind.
Again, there is an infinitely inferior form of intuition in the body, the vital,
the mind and the heart. The intuition in the body is practically blind. In the vital,
it is powerfully obscure; in the mind, surprisingly uncertain; in the heart,
deplorably helpless.
The difference between intuition and will-power is this: intuition sees the
Truth; will-power wants to become the Truth. Intuition has the ability to shorten
the road that leads to the highest Illumination. Will-power has the ability to bathe
in the sea of Illumination.
Imagination is not intuition. Inspiration is not intuition. Aspiration is not
intuition. But when intuition presents imagination with the Truth, imagination
successfully expands the Truth. When intuition presents inspiration with the
Truth, inspiration soulfully embraces the Truth. When intuition presents aspiration
with the Truth, aspiration devotedly devours the Truth.
Intuition is the golden link between Vision and Reality. Vision needs intuition
to carry its all-transforming message to humanity. Reality needs intuition to carry
its all-surrendering message to Divinity.