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sort of will-o'-the-wisp, not a thing from which any real, definite results could ever be obtained --- not a thing that the business world could rest upon.

There is a blind faith, to be sure. (Someone has truthfully said that blind faith is better than none at all; for, if held to, it will get its eyes open after a time.) But there is also an understanding faith. Blind faith is an instinctive trust in a power higher than ourselves. Understanding faith is based on immutable principle.

Faith does not depend on physical facts or on the evidence of the senses because it is born of intuition, or the Spirit of Truth ever living at the center of our being. Its action is infinitely higher than that of reason. It is founded on Truth; while as you remember from a former lesson, reasoning or intellectual argument is founded on evidence of the senses and is not reliable.

Intuition is the open end, within one's own being, of the invisible channel ever connecting each individual with God. Faith is, as it were, a ray of light shot out from the central sun --- God --- one end of which ray comes into your being and mine through the open door of intuition. With our consciousness, we perceive the ray of light, and though intellect cannot grasp it or give the why or wherefore thereof, yet we instinctively feel that the other end of the ray opens out into all there is of God (Good). This is "blind faith." It is based on Truth,