XXI
INTUITION
“By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches.”
--Ezekiel 28:5
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious is the world of God within us. “There lies the land of song; there lies the poet’s native land.” These are the words of Longfellow to whom intuition meant the perception of Truth without aid of conscious reasoning, but a perception, nevertheless, which conscious reasoning must eventually support. “If only I could have known what was going to happen, so much might have been avoided which now must be endured,” says the man who has made a mistake in business, and the woman who has made a mistake in love.
The popular notion that women are more intuitional than men might be seriously questioned if their matrimonial and sentimental ventures were used as tests. If the faculty of intuition has a special field in which to exercise itself, it would seem to be in affairs of the heart, but the number of mistakes made by women in such