I have been an art teacher. I am an artist. I primarily conceptualize my Universe visually, so I look for images to crystallize the lessons of Haanel, in the Master Keys, for myself. Thoughts for this blog came instantly into focus during a simple meandering conversation with my mastermind partner tonight; all because I said … I am a potter.

That mental picture colored the following passages in a new way and led me to interesting places within:

“Thought is the activity which controls every principle beneath it.” (1 – Part seventeen, Haanel)

(3) “… true conceptions are only secured by spiritual insight. This insight requires a quickening of the vibrations of the Mind, and is only secured when the mind is continuously concentrated in a given direction.”

” … you should be so interested in your thought, so engrossed in your subject, as to be conscious of nothing else. Such concentration leads to intuitive perception and immediate insight into the nature of the object concentrated upon.” (6)

“If you concentrate on some matter of importance, the intuitive power will be set in operation, and help will come …” (22 )

(23) “Intuition arrives at conclusions without the aid of experience or memory. Intuition often solves problems that are beyond the grasp of the reasoning power. Intuition often comes with suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power. Intuition can be cultivated and developed; in order to do this it must be recognized and appreciated; if the intuitive visitor is given a royal welcome when he comes, he will come again; the more cordial welcome the more frequent his visits will become …”

“Intuition usually comes in the Silence … ” (24)

When I am at my wheel, hands on the clay, all focus is on that spinning form in front of me. With “relaxation of thought” the whole world melts away and I am held by the slender thread that connects my Spirit to that clay. It’s a conversation. Intuition … Insight … Inspiration … all flow from Universal Mind, through my hands to manifest the shape of that clay into a miracle.

“… When you get to the heart of things it is comparatively easy to understand and command them.” (31)

(32) “This is because the Spirit of the thing is the thing itself, the vital part of it, the real substance. The form is simply the outward manifestation of the spiritual activity within.”

Can it really be that simple? Can you picture it?

Thanks for visiting. More next week.

I promise.