Without intelligence there would be no progress, no development.
Our present highly organized civilization is the result of the dovetailing of our intellectual experiences. But it cannot be expressed perfectly because of the various evolutionary levels of its individual units so one of the most important tasks of our time is to increase the general intelligence of people in regard to their perceptions, concepts and ideas about the world in which we live. This covers a wide field.
In broad terms the material and the spiritual have a definite relationship which rightly understood would solve many difficulties of thought and action.
Not all see this. Some folk are predominantly material, others fanatically spiritual. Many are experts if comprehending the physical world, but are blind to the fourth dimensional activity which gives it life. The ultimate of life is full and perfect comprehension, but that stage can never be reached. We shall never be quite intelligent enough.
But intelligence is not acquired by ruminating in abstract thought. It is through hard contact with your concrete environment that you gain insight. The value of an experience is in what you learn from it, to remember its good and avoid its evil. Eons of time were necessary for life-forms io develop this ability.
To live insects, birds and mammals have to be very alert. They must recall their enemies by color, form and size, by the cries they make, and the noise of their approach. This would apply equally to friends. Localities where food and shelter are plentiful are not to be forgotten. Seasons, climates, and times affect their living.
Many animals remember kindness, friendliness and food offered by humans.
The golden-mantled ground squirrels which live in Sequoia National Park are at first timid of human enticements, but later can be persuaded to sit upon one’s shoulder, or dive into a shirt pocket in search of precious peanuts. Noting harmful food, chickens will not eat a certain yellow caterpillar.
The building of homes, the choosing of lairs, the construction of dens and the weaving of nests all give values as to size, weight and strength of materials.
In my garden today a spider spun a web, a most elaborate affair in the shape of a morning glory. It used the decaying branches of a dahlia plant for supports and hid itself in the dried-up hollow tube of the main stem. The weaving was remarkable and must have taken hours of intelligent labor.
Through such ability, and the perception and expression which it entails, life-forms of all grades acquire a high level of intelligence. Then the human appears, possessing potentially the accumulated ability of all such past experiences.
The intellectual thought-elements thus acquired will be found mapped in your birth chart by Mercury, and the energies expressed by this symbol are the source of eventuality, language, calculation, and the recognition of size, weight, form and color.
These thought-elements direct the way you think about your daily happenings and naturally influence all other thought-elements which you constantly add to your astral body. Intellectual cleverness, then, or its lack, brings fortune or misfortune of its own type.
Discordant thoughts of this type, concentrated by worry, are chiefly responsible for nervousness, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, hay fever, asthma, and some bowel complaints.
In connection with domestic conditions they lead to mental disease. Writers, lawyers, teachers have them prominent.
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