Instead we can study ourselves today, since we are precisely what we made ourselves in the past, its culmination. Essentially the difference is one of outlook, and not of metaphysical distance. He also tells us that the voice of the intuition is the voice of the Spirit within us, and it is infallible. It has no frontiers. . . . They are coming to us all the time.
Most men are ashamed to act intuitively.
They don't want to make mistakes. But it is only prudence, and uncommendable, cowardly and weak, and small, if it is merely because you don't want to begin to make a fool of yourself until you have learned more. When the idea imbodied in this principle burns in the heart and sets it afire with its holy flame, then the brain receives enlightenment in its turn and sees, indeed evokes, the methods, the way, the path, the means. Let never this challenge pass unanswered. Take it up immediately. . . .