REASON.

Human reason is the outgrowth of the intuition. In its final analysis,

it is the comprehension by the soul of the reality of truth and of its

just relationships and values. It is the power of discriminating and

deciding between the perception of the intuition and the testimony of

facts gathered by observation and experience. The intuition of man is

of the will, that of woman is of the affections; thus it is more

spiritual than man's. Just as the doctors have prospected and laid out

and defined the functions of the physical body, so are the

psychologists and the mental scientists seeking a way and method by

which the attributes of the real being may be divided off into sections

and labelled accordingly. The fact is, the individual soul is all the

time struggling to reach its own at-one-ment with itself. When it

comes under the tuition and discipline of the gods, and begins to

perceive their methods, it can understand the whys and wherefores of

the intentions of life's experiences. They are to consolidate and make

practical vagrant emotions and tendencies, and lop off and scorch out

the idiosyncrasies of heredity and custom, and rouse the soul to a

knowledge of its need of harmony with divine law. Into the real soul

depths can no divulging line and plummet reach. This domain belongs to

its Creator alone. It is only as the tests of living and doing

manifest hidden motives and meanings that we catch glimpses of the ego

that abides within and through this life, submerged as it is in the

flesh. We can know but little of what is now, or of what yet shall be,

when the wholeness of the individual is established.

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