296 The Spiritual Man
What is this complex which is so unlike our mind, emotion and
will? It is the intuition of the spirit: the spirit is expressing itself
through our intuition. How distinctive the intuition is from our
emotional feeling. Frequently we feel inclined to execute a certain
act, but this inward, unarticulated intuition sharply warns against it. It
is totally counter to our mind. The latter is located in the brain and is
of a reasoning nature, while intuition is lodged elsewhere and is often
opposed to reasoning. The Holy Spirit expresses His thought through
this intuition. What we commonly refer to as being moved by the
Spirit is but the Holy Spirit making us know His will intuitively by
working upon our spirit. Just here can we differentiate between what
comes from God’s Spirit and what from ourselves and Satan.
Because the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirit which is at the center of
our being, His thought, expressed through our intuition, must arise
from that innermost region. How contrary this is to thought which
originates at the periphery of our being. If a notion should come from
our outward man—that is, from the mind or emotion—then we
realize it is but our own and not that of the Holy Spirit; for whatever
is His must flow from the depths. The same distinction applies to
what comes forth from Satan (those of demon possession excepted).
He dwells not in our spirit but in the world: “he who is in you (the
Holy Spirit) is greater than he who is in the world (Satan)” (1 John
4.4). Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work
through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and
emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man. It
therefore behooves us to learn to distinguish our feelings as to
whether they originate with the inner, or come from the outer, man.
The Anointing of GodThe intuition of which we have been speaking is exactly the locus
where occurs the anointing that teaches: “you have been anointed by
the Holy One, and you all know... But the anointing which you
received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one