{Prophecy and Intellection, Wisdom and Intuition}[16th December 1987]

[Redbook4:234-235][19871216:2211b]{Prophecy and Intellection, Wisdom and Intuition}[16th December 1987]

19871216.2211

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It may be asked: how can too such different activities as prophecy and intellection both belong at S~?* The answer, I think, is that although the activities involved may appear different, the mental processes are essentially similar – at least when compared to Intuition (R~).

Whereas Intuition and Wisdom involve a more-or-less woolly** exercise of judgement based on experience and generalised awareness – Intellection and Prophecy both involve, or aspire to, an absolute clarity of concentration on the application of certain mental processes or states: logic, of one kind or another, in the case of Intellection; and 'Fear of the Lord' in the case of Prophecy.***

In neither case**** is judgement based on experience of the actual World really a help: in fact, it will tend to confuse the results. This is (I speculate) because whereas Intuition and Wisdom may involve detachment of the Self from the subject-matter (more technically, the object); Intellection (at its finest) and Prophecy may go a stage further and require detachment of the Self from the process, in the mental processing of the object, so that the Mind becomes merely or mainly an objective processing machine (in the case of Intellection) or a communications link (in the case of Prophecy).

(I speculate further that in the final stage, Union, the Self is detached from the Subject: but that is clearly beyond any writer's personal experience.).

* – Not now <930630>

{cf.[[Redbook4:199-200][19871206:1235e]{Sense and Sensibility (2)}[6th December 1987] ] 199.}

{BUT See VI.[]256}

**[cf. fuzzy logic? <20170611>]

***It is chastening to find that in VI.[] 256 I have justified a completely opposite conclusion – but my understanding of prophets has changed also, and of the way they worked (and work) in fact: i.e. the latter prophets instead of Moses and Samuel. <891006>

****[Intellection and Prophecy, presumably.]

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