86. Intuition

 
 
Every intuition immediately forms a picture. The small brain, which is supposed to be the bridge of the soul to its mastery over the body, participates in this formation of pictures. It is the part of the brain that conveys dream to you. This part maintain its connection with the forebrain, through the activity of which the thoughts that are more bound to space and time arise, and from which ultimately the intellect is composed.
 
Now pay close attention to the development! You can sharply distinguish when the intuition speaks to you through the spirit or when the feeling comes through the intellect!
 
The activity of the human spirit evokes intuition in the solar plexus and thereby simultaneously impresses the small brain. The effect of spirit! Hence, a wave of force emanates from the spirit. This wave is naturally felt by the individual, where the spirit in the soul makes connection with the body, at the center of the so-called solar plexus, which transmits the movement to the small brain that is impressed by it. Depending on the specific type of the various impressions, the small brain forms a kind of photographic plate of that same picture of the action that the spirit has willed, or that the spirit, in its strong force, formed with in its strong will. A picture without words! The forebrain then takes this picture and attempts to describe it in words, whereby the generation of thoughts takes place, which then comes to expression in language.
 
The whole process is in reality very simple. I will repeat once more: The spirit impresses, with the help of the solar plexus – the given bridge, consequently imprinting a specific volition into waves of force onto the instrument of the small brain, which immediately passes on the information it received to the forebrain. During this transmission, a slight change has already occurred due to condensation, as the small brain adds to its own particular nature to it. Like interlocking links in a chain, the organs in the human body are made available to the spirit for its use. But they all only form; they cannot do otherwise. Everything transferred to them is shaped according to their own distinctiveness. Thus, the forebrain also takes the ascribed picture from the cerebellum and presses it for the first time into narrower concepts of space and time, according to its coarser nature, thus condensing it and bringing it into the more tangible ethereal world of thought forms. Subsequently, it also forms words and sentences, which then penetrate through the organs of speech into fine coarse matter as formed sound waves, thereby invoking a new effect that in turn leads to the movement of the waves. The spoken word is therefore an effect of the pictures through the forebrain. However, this can also steer the direction of the effect to the organs of movement instead of the organs of speech, whereby instead of words, writing or action emerges.
 
This is the normal course of the activity that Creator intended for the human spirit in Gross Matter.

It is the right way that would have brought healthy post-development in Creation, whereby it was not at all possible for humanity to stray.
 
Humans, however, voluntarily stepped out of this path, which was prescribed for their by the composition of their bodies. With stubbornness they interfered with the normal course of the chain of their instruments by making the intellect their idol. In this way, they threw all their force into the training of the intellect one-sidedly only, on this one point. The forebrain, as the producer, was now disproportionately exerted with regard to all the other co-operating instruments. This naturally revenged itself. The uniform and collaborative work of all individual parts was disrupted and inhibited, thus also obstructed any proper development. The maximal tension on the forebrain alone for thousands of years drove its growth far beyond anything else. The result is the suppression of the activity of all the neglected parts, which had to remain weaker due to lesser use. This includes first and foremost the cerebellum, which is the instrument of the spirit. From this it is evident that the activity of the actual human spirit has not only been greatly hindered, but is often completely prevented and remains deactivated. The possibility of proper intercourse with the forebrain via the bridge of the small brain has been buried, while a connection of the human spirit directly with the forebrain remains completely excluded, as its composition is not at all suitable for such a connection. It is entirely reliant on the full work of the small brain, the chain of happenings of which it stands according to God’s Will, if it wants to fulfil its activity correctly. Receiving the vibrations of the spirit is inherent to the nature of the small brain. It cannot be by-passed at all; for, in its activity, the frontal brain has to prepare the transition to Fine Dense Matter and Coarse Dense Matter, and is therefore also of quite a different, much coarser nature.

In the one-sided, large-scale cultivation of the frontal brain now lies the original sin of humanity against God, or more clearly, against the Divine Laws that are laid down in the correct distribution of all bodily instruments, just as they are in the entirety of Creation. The observance of the right distribution would also have carried the right and straight path to ascent for the human spirit. But man, in his ambitious conceit, reached into the meshes of healthy functioning, singled out one part of it and cultivated it especially, disregarding all the others. This was bound to bring about inequality and stagnation. If the course of natural events is impeded in this way, illness and failure, and ultimately confusion and collapse, must be the inevitable result.
 
Here, however, it is not only the body that comes into consideration, but primarily the spirit! With this encroachment of the uneven education of the two brains, the back brain was suppressed in the course of millennia through neglect, thus inhibiting the spirit in its activity. It became an original sin because the one-sided over-development of the frontal brain is passed on to every child over time as a coarse-material inheritance, making it incredibly difficult to experience spiritual awakening and strengthening from the outset, because the necessary bridge of the back brain no longer remained so easily passable and was very often even cut off.
 
Man does not even suspect what a strong condemning irony lies in the expressions he created: ‘large and small brain’! The accusation cannot be more terribly pronounced against his assault upon Divine purpose! He thereby characterizes precisely the worst of his earthly guilt, since in outrageous stubbornness he mutilated the fine instrument of the physical body, which was meant to help him on this earth, so that not only can it not serve him as it was intended by the Creator, but that it must even lead him to the depths of ruin! Far worse have they in such a way erred than drunkards or those who ruin their bodies in the indulgence of all passions!
 
And now they also have the presumption that God should make Himself understandable to them in such a way as they can comprehend in the wilfully distorted shell of their bodies! On top of this already committed blasphemy, the demand!
 
In the course of his natural stages of development, man could have easily and joyfully climbed the steps to the Luminous Heights if he had not interfered with God’s Work with his sinful hands! Cursed be him if he does not now grasp the last lifeline with thanksgiving! Woe unto him, should he brew and spread further mischief and sins, and pour out suffering upon his fellow-men, as has happened so far! It was not possible otherwise than that such crippled brains would fall into insane delusions of grandeur, which they still possess in the rich mass! The human beings of the future will have normal brains, which, with uniform reciprocal working, only support him harmoniously. The back brain, which is called the small brain because it has become stunted, will now become stronger, because arriving at the right activity, there will be proper relationship with the frontal brain. Then harmony will be restored, and the cramped, and the unhealthy must disappear!

Now, regarding the further consequences of the wrong way of life so far: The back brain, which is much too small in proportion, also makes it difficult for those who are true seekers today to distinguish between what is real intuition in it and what is merely feeling. I have said earlier that feeling is generated by the forebrain, in that its thoughts act on the nerves of the body, which in turn force the excitation of the so-called imagination on the forebrain.
 
Imagination are pictures that the forebrain produces. It cannot be compared with pictures that the cerebellum forms under the pressure of the spirit! Here we have the difference between the expression of intuition as the result of an activity of the spirit, and the outcomes of the feeling arising from the bodily nerves. Both produce pictures that are difficult or impossible for the ignorant to distinguish, even though there is such an enormous difference between them. The pictures of intuition are genuine and carry active force, whereas the pictures of feeling, the imagination, are fakery drawn from borrowed force.
 
But the difference is easily discernible for the one who knows the development in the whole Creation and then observes oneself carefully.
 
In the case of the pictures of intuition, the activity of the cerebellum as a bridge for the spirit, the pictures first appears directly, and only then does they transition into thoughts, whereby the emotional life of the body is then influenced by the thoughts.
 
With the pictures produced by the forebrain, however, it is the other way round. Thoughts must precede them in order to provide the basis for the pictures. But all this happens so quickly that it almost seems like one. However, with some practice in observation, one can very soon distinguish exactly what kind is in process.
 
Another consequence of this original sin is confusion of dreams! For this reason, people today can no longer place the value on dreams that they should. The normal small brain, influenced by the spirit, would give the dreams clear and unconfused. That is to say, they would not be dreams at all, but experiences of the spirit that are recorded and reproduced by the small brain while the front brain rested during sleep. But at that same time during the night, the now formidable force of the front or day brain continues to exercise its radiating influence to the ever so sensitive rear brain. In its present weakened condition, the hindbrain absorbs the strong radiations of the forebrain simultaneously with the experience of the spirit, whereby a mixture emerges like the double exposure on a photographic plate. This results in the unclear dreams we have today.
 
The best evidence of this is that often in dreams, words and sentences occur that originate only from the activity of the front brain, which alone forms words and sentences because it is more closely bound to space and time.
 
As a result humans are now also no longer or only inadequately accessible to spiritual warnings and instructions through the back brain, and hence are exposed to many more dangers that they could otherwise escape through spiritual warnings!
 
Thus, in addition to these aforementioned adverse effects, there are many more that human interference with the Divine ordinances have brought about; for, in reality, all evil arose only from this one transgression so visible to everyone today, which was merely a fruit of the vanity that arose through the appearance of woman in Creation.
 
Man must therefore finally tear himself away from the consequences of hereditary sin, if he does not want to be lost.

Of course, everything costs effort, including this. Humanity should awaken from its complacency in order to finally become what it was meant to be from the beginning! Promoters of Creation and mediator of the Light for all creatures!