The Interplay of Intuition and Reason (Abridged)
There is the utmost unanimity in the testimony of the mystics that the world without and the world within are but different aspects of the same reality—"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which He sees me." they never weary of the telling of the solidarity and invisible continuity of life, of the inclusion not only of the minute in the vast, but of the vast in the minute. We may accept this form of perception as characteristic of consciousness in its free state. Its instrument is the intuition, which divides relations between diverse things through a perception of unity. The instrument of the purely mundane consciousness, on the other hand, is the reason, which dissevers and dissects phenomena, divining unity through correlation. Now if physical phenomena, in all their manifoldness, are lower dimensional projections, upon a lower dimensional space, of a higher unity, then reason and intuition are seen to be two modes of one intelligence engaged in apprehending life from below (by means of the reason) through its diversity, and from above (by means of the intuition) through its unity.