Intelligence

 
 

  1. Bullet“The highest intelligence is to be able to change what needs to be changed in one’s life so that continual soul progress is possible.”  - Page 692

  2. Bullet“God, as the Creator of universes, works immanently as the Universal Intelligence in matter and in human consciousness...if God removed His cohesive Intelligence, all universes and beings would disappear..., just as the scenes and actors vanish from a screen when the light running through a film is shut off.”  - Page 349n.

  3. Bullet“...by the command of the Holy Ghost--Cosmic Vibratory Force; the Word, Aum or Amen--all things are created. Immanent in the Holy Ghost is the conscious reflection of the Deity, the Christ Intelligence, by which that Cosmic Vibratory Power is guided to evolve all manifestations of goodness in the world.” - Page 671

  4. Bullet“In Christ ecstasy, the devotee feels merged in the transcendent reflected image of God’s Intelligence as Christ Consciousness reflected in creation.” - Page 707

  5. Bullet“Christ Intelligence, which is the true ‘bread’ or Substance that sustains all creation and all living things.” - Page 834

  6. Bullet“...the body is not sustained by ordinary human consciousness but by the infinite Christ Intelligence that is within..., and which gives consciousness and life to all living creatures.” - Page 833

  7. Bullet“By spiritual development, one rises to a state wherein the fixed consciousness generated from contact with matter vanishes. Finite objects are seen as naught but imprisoned consciousness; and the formerly rigid differentiations of matter are experienced as relativities of thought, all interrelated in the preeminent, unifying Divine Intelligence from which they flow. In his oneness with that imperial Christ Intelligence, Jesus had wakened from the grand mayic dream; he had transcended the fixed consciousness under the control of the Cosmic Hypnotist. Thus he could at will convert the materialized thoughts of stones into bread or those of water into wine.” - Page 224


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Among great saints and spiritual teachers of modern times, Paramahansa Yogananda is one who has written of the inner meaning of Intelligence.

    So as a beginning, here are some of his comments, excerpted from his magnificent commentary on the New Testament - composed toward the end of his life in seclusion in the California desert. It was published by the Self-Realization Fellowship as THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.

Intelligence

Reflections From Paramahansa Yogananda