Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path

236 Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path

as the separate human beings that we are; as soon as we
notice the world of ideas that lights up in us, embracing
everything separate, we see what is absolutely real light
up livingly within us. Dualism fixes on the divine, pri-
mordial Being as that which permeates all humans and
lives within them all. Monism finds this universal divine
life in reality itself. The conceptual content of another hu-
man being is also my own conceptual content, and I see
the otherasother only as long as I am perceiving, and not
once I am thinking. Each person’s thinking embraces
only a part of the total world of ideas and, to that extent,
individuals also differ through the actual content of their
thinking. But the contents exist within a self-enclosed
whole that contains the thought contents of all human be-
ings. The universal, primordial Being permeating all hu-
manity thus takes hold of us through our thinking. Life
within reality, filled with thought content, is at the same
time life in God. The merely inferred, not-to-be-experi-
enced transcendent realm is based on a misunderstanding
by those who believe that what is manifest does not bear
within itself the reason for its existence. They do not re-
alize that, through thinking, they can find the explanation
for perception that they seek. This is why no speculation
has ever brought to light a content that was not borrowed
from the reality given to us. The God derived through ab-
stract inference is only the human being displaced to the
Beyond. Schopenhauer’s “Will” is human willpower
made absolute. Von Hartmann’s “unconscious primordial
Being,” composed of Idea and Will, is a combination of
two abstractions of our experience. Exactly the same can