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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism398
manifestation we are apt to call “intuition.” Many people use the three terms
and have a clear understanding of the difference between each form of
manifestation, but are unable to explain just what these promptings are, or
from whence they come. The Yogi Philosophy offers an explanation, and
Dharma depends to some extent upon that explanation, as it rests partially
upon the pillar of Conscience or Intuition—the second pillar—the first
pillar being Revelation; the third being Utility. These three pillars represent,
respectively, the voice of The Lord; the voice of man’s intuitive faculties;
and the voice of man’s reason. Let us now see what the Yogi Philosophy has
to say regarding this question of Intuition, and the nature of the message
coming from that part of the soul.
In order to understand the nature of Conscience, Intuition, Temptation
and other feelings coming into the field of consciousness from the subconscious
regions of the mind, we must turn back a few pages in our lessons.
In the first series of The Yogi Lessons (generally known as “The Fourteen
Lessons”), in The Second and Third Lessons, we told you something about
the different “minds” in man—the different planes along which the mind of
man functions. You will remember what we said about the Instinctive Mind,
the Intellect, and the Spiritual Mind. We have spoken of them repeatedly
in the several lessons comprising the first course, and the present course,
of lessons, and we trust that you have a fair understanding of the nature of
each.
“Temptations,” or the impulse to do “evil” or “wrong” things, come from
the lower regions of the mind—that part of the Instinctive Mind that has
to do with the animal passions, tendencies, emotions, etc. These passions,
emotions, tendencies, etc., are our inheritance from the past. They are not
“bad” in themselves, except that they belong to a part of our soul history
which we have left behind us, or out of which we are now emerging. These
things may have been the highest “good” possible to our mental conception
at some time in the history of our evolution—may have been necessary for
our well-being at that time—may have been much better than other states