In this wonderful region dwells Genius.  Many, if not all of the great writers, poets, musicians, artists and other examples of genius have felt that their power came to them from some higher source.  Many have thought that it emanated from some being kindly to them, who would inspire them with power and wisdom.  Some transcendent power seemed to have been called into operation, and the worker would feel that his product or creation was not his handiwork, but that of some outside intelligence.  The Greeks recognized this something in man, and called it man’s “Daemon.”  Plutarch in his discourse on the daemon that guided Socrates speaks of the vision of Timarchus, who, in the case of Trophonius, saw spirits which were partly attached to human bodies, and partly over and above them, shining luminously over their heads.  He was informed by the oracle that the part of the spirit which was immersed in the body was called the “soul,” but that the outer and unimmersed portion was called the “daemon.”  The oracle also informed him that every man had his daemon, whom he is bound to obey; those who implicitly follow that guidance are the prophetic souls, the favorites of the gods.  Goethe also spoke of the daemon as a power higher than the will, and which inspired certain natures with miraculous energy.

We may smile at these conceptions, but they are really very close to the truth.  The higher regions of the mind, while belonging to the individual, and a part of himself, are so far above his ordinary consciousness that to all intents and purposes messages from them are as orders from another and higher soul.  But still the voice is that of the “I,” speaking through its sheaths as best it is able.

This power belongs to every one of us, although it manifests only in the degree that we are able to respond to it.  It grows by faith and confidence, and closes itself up, and withdraws into its recesses when we doubt it and would question its veracity and reality.  What we call “originality” comes from this region.  The Intuitive faculties pass on to the conscious mind some perception of truth higher than the Intellect has been able to work out for itself, and lo! it is called the work of genius.

The advanced occultist knows that in the higher regions of the mind are locked up intuitive perceptions of all truth, and that he who can gain access to these regions will know everything intuitively, and as a matter of clear sight, without reasoning or explanation.  The race has not as yet reached the heights of Intuition—­it is just beginning to climb the foothills.  But it is moving in the right direction.  It will be well for us if we will open ourselves to the higher inner guidance, and be willing to be “led by the Spirit.”  This is a far different thing from being led by outside intelligence, which may, or may not, be qualified to lead.  But the Spirit within each of us has our interests at heart and is desirous of our best good, and is not only ready but