In the Light of Truth

86. Intuition

Every sensation or psychical experience that a man is impressed with, immediately forms an image. The cerebellum participates in this work, for it is the bridge across which the soul controls the body. It is that part of the brain which causes dreams.

The cerebellum is connected with the frontal brain in which thoughts are generated. These are more or less controlled or restrained by time and space and constitute the human intellect.

If you pay attention to these phenomena, you will easily distinguish whether your intuition, the spiritual agent, is speaking to you or whether it is your feeling, the intellectual agent.

The activity of the human spirit awakens intuition in the solar plexus and it has a corresponding effect on the cerebellum. It is a wave of dynamic force which the spirit sends forth.

Man naturally senses this wave where the spirit (within the soul) has its nearest connection with the physical body, i. e. the centre of the so-called solar plexus which again passes the motion forward to influence the cerebellum. Like a photographic plate, the cerebellum fixes a picture of the process or event exactly corresponding to what the spirit intended or to what the spirit formed by the energy of its will-power.

A picture without words! The frontal brain takes over this picture and seeks to put it into words, thus thoughts are generated which again are expressed in language. In truth the process is simple enough. Let me repeat:

By the help of the solar plexus, the spirit makes an impress on the bridge provided for it, or one can say, the powerful vibrations of spiritual volition communicate themselves to the cerebellum, the tool given for this purpose, which forthwith passes on the impression received to the frontal brain. In the process of transit a slight modification takes place, for the cerebellum infuses some of its own density into the spiritual impression received.

To carry out its behests, the spirit has a set of tools at its disposal in the human body; these are linked together in a certain order as in a chain and each link shapes what is transmitted to it after its own fashion: it is its only work and the only work it can do.

Thus the frontal brain takes over the picture which the cerebellum passes to it and begins by compressing it within narrower restrictions of time and space to correspond with its own somewhat coarser consistency. This process condenses and consolidates the picture and it passes into the world of thought-forms which is of more tangible substance.

The next stage is the formation of words and sentences. These are sound vibrations. The organs of speech carry them into finest material substance where they set another category of vibrations in activity and do fresh work.

Hence the spoken word is a result (effect) of pictures transmitted by the frontal brain. The latter may choose to affect the organs of locomotion instead of the organs of speech, in which case the effect will be manifested in writing or in action.

This is the normal course of the activity of the human spirit in matter, in obedience to the Will of the Creator.

That is the right course and would have furnished a sound basis for the further development of Subsequent Creation. It would then have been impossible for mankind to have lost their way and gone astray.

Man, however, voluntarily abandoned the prescribed course for which his body was physically adapted. He wilfully interfered in the order of succession of the tools he had at his command, by making his intellect his idol. He concentrated all his energy on its culture to the prejudice of all else.

Considered to be the source of productivity, demands were made on the frontal brain, out of all proportion to what was required of the other tools. In so doing, man incurred a heavy penalty, for it upset the equal balance of the tasks and responsibilities of each separate unit or link in the chain, it hindered their cooperative work and put a stop to all proper development.

The excessive strain the frontal brain was under for centuries, the pressure which was concentrated on it alone, so forced its growth that it overpowered all else with the result that the activity of the neglected parts was so curtailed that they degenerated for want of exercise. And among these, the cerebellum, the tool of the spirit, was the first to suffer.

It follows, therefore, that the human spirit was hindered and impeded in its function if not altogether disabled.

The way to the frontal brain over the cerebellum (the bridge) being blocked, all communication and intercourse between the human spirit and the frontal brain was and will always be out of the question, the component parts of the frontal brain making it absolutely unsuited for such intercourse.

The frontal brain is wholly dependent on a cerebellum in full working order. If it will rightly carry out its appointed task, it must, in obedience to the Will of God, take the position assigned to it which comes next in succession after the cerebellum.

The nature and substance of the cerebellum makes it sensitive to and capable of receiving spiritual vibrations. This is an indispensable condition, for the frontal brain which must transmit vibrations to matter (both to fine ethereal as well as to dense visible substance) is of quite a different and much coarser fibre.

The super-cultivation of the frontal brain is Original Sin, the inherited sin of mankind in which man sins against God, or more precisely said, against His Divine Laws, which are manifested in the distribution of the tools in man's physical body as in all else in Creation.

If man had kept to this right distribution and conformed to its order, he would have found his way to ascent in it. But his ambition and his presumption caused him to interfere in the normal order of things. He laid hold of and picked out a special tool, fostered, cherished and furthered it, disregarding all the others. This brought inequality among them and held up all advance. If the natural course of events is held up in this way, disease and failure must ensue, ending in utter confusion and ruin.

Here it is not a question of the body only, but, in the first place of the spirit.

Unequal cultivation of the two parts of the brain was unlawful interference in the natural order of phenomena: For centuries the cerebellum was forced back and suppressed and spiritual work checked.

Inherited Sin it is rightly called, because the one-sided, super-cultivation of the frontal brain is physically transmitted to every child at its birth, thus from the start, incredibly handicapping its spiritual awakening and strengthening. The bridge it needs (the cerebellum) is no longer easy to cross, indeed it is at times altogether blocked.

In assigning undue importance to his frontal brain and in relegating his cerebellum to the second place, man pronounces just censure on his want of understanding. The mutilation of the most precious and delicate tool of his physical body was the greatest of man's many blundering sins on earth, neither does he suspect what harm he did himself in his criminal obstinacy. For the tool given him to be of service to him in this world must now inevitably drag him down to ruin. This sin was far greater than that of the drunkard or than that of the libertine who wastes his strength and destroys his body by indulging in his carnal instincts.

And now, in spite of having wilfully disabled the medium they had in their physical bodies, they have the presumption to expect that God shall make Himself manifest to them in a manner that they can understand: After their sacrilegious guilt, they would make exactions!

If man had not unlawfully interfered in the disposition of God's Work, but developed in the normal manner, how easily and how joyfully would he have mounted the steps to the higher regions of Light!

Let him be accursed who does not lay hold of the last saving anchor with a grateful heart!

Let him go to his doom that he may not brew fresh mischief and sow new sins, and bring still greater misery and affliction on his fellow-men, than he has done heretofore.

It is not astonishing that such mental cripples unfailingly succumb to megalomania, the insanity of grandeur, from which the present generation still greatly suffers.

Future generations will have normal brains. These will cooperate and second each other harmoniously.

The cerebellum, called the small brain because of its crippled degenerate condition, will recover its proper field of activity and grow in strength till it is in the right proportion to the frontal brain.

Then harmony will be re-established and all that is rigid (petrified) or unsound will be cast aside. But let us now examine into the further consequences of the false principles which man has hitherto taken as directives for his life.

The small size of the present-day cerebellum being out of all proportions makes it very difficult for the serious seeker to recognise the whisperings of his soul and distinguish intuition from mere feeling.

I have already said that feeling is the product of the frontal brain; the thoughts it sends forth affect the nervous system and then are reflected back to the frontal brain where they awaken, quicken and compel so-called imagination.

Imagination is a picture formed by and coming from the frontal brain and is not to be compared to the brain-pictures coming from the cerebellum which are impressions of the spirit. Here we have the difference between the mode of expression of intuition, the product of the activity of the spirit, and the mode of expression of feeling, resulting from physical nervous activity.

Both produce brain-pictures, but although there is such a mighty difference between them, it is hard if not indeed impossible for one who does not know, to make a distinction.

The brain-pictures from the cerebellum are genuine and alive; they emanate living energy, the brain-pictures of feeling are imaginations, they are deceptive, their energy is borrowed energy. For one who is acquainted with all the phenomena of cosmic development and studies himself attentively the difference is easy to recognise.

In the case of brain-pictures transmitted by the cerebellum in its function of bridge for spiritual influences, the picture appears first, the effect is immediate, then the picture is transmuted into thought and the thought influences the inner life of man.

In the case of the brain-pictures the frontal brain transmits, the order is reversed: here the thought must precede to form a basis for the picture. All this happens so rapidly that it appears as if it occurred simultaneously. A little practice in observation, however, will very soon teach a man to recognise which process is going on.

Another result of this inherited sin is the manifest confusion in dreams! This is the reason man can no longer lay that value on his dreams as is due to them. The normal cerebellum influenced by the spirit would render dreams clear and lucid, that is to say they would not be dreams at all but spiritual experiences, received and transmitted whilst the frontal brain was asleep.

The frontal or the day-brain of the present day is of such superlative energy that it influences the delicate sensitiveness of the cerebellum by night also. The latter absorbs these powerful emanations together with its spiritual realisations and the result is a confused conflux of impressions like the result of double illumination on a photographic plate. This is the reason of the confused dreams of today.

The best proof of this double influence is the occurrence of words and sentences in dreams; these can only proceed from the frontal brain, for the frontal brain alone forms words and sentences owing to its being more closely allied to time and space.

It follows that spiritual warnings and teaching from the cerebellum can no longer (or at least rarely) find their way to man so that he is exposed to many dangers that spiritual warning would enable him to avoid.

Man's unlawful interference in Divine disposition brought about many other evil results besides those already enumerated. For in truth all evil proceeded from this disastrous failure so evident to every one today. It was but a fruit of vanity, and vanity came into the world with woman.

If he does not wish to be lost, man should tear himself free from the results of inherited sin.

To do so, like all other work, will cause him trouble. But man must awaken out of his comfortable indolence to become at last what he should have been from the beginning: an instrument serving to develop and advance Creation and a transmitter of Light to all creatures.

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