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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

The Role of Intuition in the Knowledge of God

1983

Jack quotes the Bab, “Knowledge is a single point, which the ignorant have multiplied.” The oneness and unity of thought, religious and science is very much the true reality. Abdul-Baha prophesized that one-day Canada and the United States would be one country, and that it would be called Columbia. The topic of today’s presentation is, “The role of Intuition in the knowledge of God”. This paper came about when Jack asked himself one basic question, “How can we come to have an understanding of God and of his Revelation.” Quoting Baha’u’llah, “The source of all learning is the Knowledge is God, exalted be his Glory.” Intuitive knowledge does establish a direct link between subject and object. Intuitive knowledge bypasses or “short circuits”, the processes of systematic reasoning, on which purely scientific statements rest. Intuitive knowledge is an existential tool, in the sense that it is experienced directly in the immediate rather than being thought-out conceptually within a framework of time.