{The Use of the Intellect and the Experience of Truth}[31st March 1987]

[Redbook3:85-86][19870331:1825h]{The Use of the Intellect and the Experience of Truth}[31^st March 1987]

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This* is not always an easy question to answer, as the Inquisition demonstrates: as with most matters Spiritual, despite popular conceptions, the intellect must be employed with utmost rigour, in the light of a fierce honesty, particularly about oneself and one's motivations. This follows logically, as we are seeking after Truth; but it is the Truth** that draws one, not the logic***.

And ultimately we are talking not about belief, but about knowledge: belief, or faith in possibilities, allows the inner experience, but it is the experience, not the belief, that gives the knowledge.

The knowledge is of the experience, is the experience; but the experience too must be examined by the intellect with rigour and honesty, if we are not to sink into woolly superstition. Even the examination must be examined: the intellect must be examined for preconceptions from the material or mental world which cloud its judgement. The inner experience may have links with, even effects on, the outer world; but it is not of the outer world, and can be no more judged than described properly in terms of the outer world. In any world, a superficial vision can be deceptive, or an hallucination; but a quality of the inner sense has reality of an order which must be experienced to be understood.

*[See last previous entry]

**The Unknown Truth, of course <890930>

***(Surely logic should be a form of truth?) <0401>

(See p.118) <0419>

(See later) <930331>

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