Sagt av andra om Intellektets natur

Några utvalda citat att begrunda, som jag åtminstone för tillfället lämnar utan vidare kommentarer:

“But the soul is not in the universe, on the contrary the universe is in the Soul; bodily substance is not a place to the Soul; Soul is contained in the Intellectual-Principle and is the container of body.”

- Plotinus

“[I]nherent knowledge [som ‘jag vet att jag vet att jag lever'] is the counterpart to our sensory knowledge of the outer world, and means that the mind is not wholly enclosed in the world of sense perception, but has the key to a realm of immediate knowledge beyond the duality of subject and object peculiar to the senses.”

- Dr Robert Bolton, “Keys of Gnosis“

“In order to grasp the universality of esotericism, which is the same thing as the universality of metaphysics, it is important above all to understand that the means or organ of metaphysical knowledge is itself of a universal order and not, like reason, of an individual order; consequentially this means or organ, which is the Intellect, must be found in all orders of nature and not only in man, as in the case of discursive thought.”

- F. Schuon, “The Transcendent Unity of Religions“

“[T]hose who in search of truth starts from consciousness as a seat of self knowledge with interests and responsibilities not confined to the material plane are just as much facing the hard fact of experience as those who start from consciousness as a device for reading the indications of spectroscopes and micrometers.”

- Sir Arthur Eddington

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