“Mr. Sargeant: Then intuition can exist with partial knowledge?
Mr. Old: I don’t think you can call that the inner aspect of Manas or the mind, because, you see, we identify the faculty of intuition with Buddhi, which is a separate principle.
Mme. Blavatsky: Not quite; it is Manas that you have to identify first.
Mr. Kingsland: It is the essence of all your reincarnations.
Mr. Old: Manas is?
Mr. Kingsland: No, intuition is.
Mme. Blavatsky: It passes through the incarnating ego.
Mr. B. Keightley: If you had Buddhi by itself, without any conjunction with Manas on this plane, you would have no intuition at all.
Mme. Blavatsky: The mission of Buddhi is simply to shadow divine light on Manas, otherwise Manas will be always falling into the Karmic {Kamic} principle, into the principle of matter; it will become the lower Manas, and act as the lower Manas or mind. But the incarnating ego is certainly the mind, the Manas.
Mr. B. Keightley: And intuition is the recollection.
Mme. Blavatsky: Of all the past accumulated experiences.
Mr. Old: But they would be sublimated.
Mr. Kingsland: How is it that one man’s intuition will make a Theosophist of him, and another man’s will make a Roman Catholic of him?
Mr. Sargeant: Because A Roman Catholic is a Theosophist. It must necessarily be so, if Theosophy embodies all the wisdoms of known religions. All the Roman Catholics are really Theosophists.
Mme. Blavatsky: So far, I know only of one real Theosophist among the Roman Catholics; it was poor Father Damien. But not at all because he was a Roman Catholic, but because he was a real Christ-like man.
Mr. Old: Don’t you claim St. Aloysius (Italian Jesuit, who gave up his inheritance and died working with the sick), as such?
Mme. Blavatsky: Fanaticism we cannot believe in, and we must not believe in. We say there is truth in everything, for it is impossible a thing should exist without having some leaven truth.
Mr. Sargeant: And consequently there is Theosophy in everything, even in fanaticism.
Mr. B. Keightley: Fanaticism is the negation of the first principle of Theosophy, which is universalism.
Mme. Blavatsky: Fanaticism is nothing but concentrated selfishness and vanity. A man says: “I believe in it, and therefore it must be so. I am the one wise man and everyone else must be a fool.”
He who is a fanatic shuts himself out of the universal truth. He simply sticks to a little thing like a fly sticks to one of those medicated papers. It is just that and nothing else.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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