Marsha, 
Since you posted Emersons essay
On intellect , perhaps you should
> State your own hypothetical opinion as to how 'intellect' fits within the 
> MoQ's levels, then I might
Understand your question better.


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> On Dec 2, 2013, at 3:39 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ron,
> 
> Sorry, I have no notion how to make the question any clearer.  I thought 
> since you had something to say about 'intellect,' you might have a 
> hypothetical opinion as to how 'intellect' fits within the MoQ's levels?  
> 
> Hahaha!  Just one of the wonderings that at times dance through my flow of 
> patterns. 
> 
> 
> Marsha
> 
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Marsha,
>> I do not understand your question
>> Please clarify .
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Dec 1, 2013, at 5:00 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ron,
>>> 
>>> What relationship might 'intellect' have to intellectual static patterns of 
>>> value of which the Intellectual Level is composed?   
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Marsha
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> . 
>>>>> Emerson's essay on intellect
>>>>> Is a brilliant example of the distinction 
>>>>> Made between objective conceptions
>>>>> Of truth and artistic ones, after deconstructing the objective 
>>>>> conceptions of his day he writes:
>>>>> "Intellect lies behind genius, which is constructive. Intellect is the 
>>>>> simple power anterior to
>>>>> all action or construction."
>>>>> He begins to associate intellect 
>>>>> As the fruit of art and the spontaneous ...
>>>>> "If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we
>>>>> shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive
>>>>> principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the
>>>>> second, but virtual and latent. We want, in every man, a long logic;
>>>>> we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic
>>>>> is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but
>>>>> its virtue is as silent method; "
>>>>> 
>>>>> Intellect is the unfolding of intuition
>>>>> 
>>>>> "We are all wise. The difference in
>>>>> persons is not in
>>>>> wisdom but in art. "
>>>>> 
>>>>> The principle of art lies in community
>>>>> And communication ..
>>>>> 
>>>>> " To genius must always
>>>>> go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is
>>>>> revelation, always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or
>>>>> incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the
>>>>> inquirer stupid with wonder. It is the advent of truth into the
>>>>> world, a form of thought now, for the first time, bursting into the
>>>>> universe, a child of the old eternal soul, a piece of genuine and
>>>>> immeasurable greatness. It seems, for the time, to inherit all that
>>>>> has yet existed, and to dictate to the unborn. It affects every
>>>>> thought of man, and goes to fashion every institution. But to make
>>>>> it available, it needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to
>>>>> men."
>>>>> 
>>>>> .
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 30, 2013, at 3:37 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best 
>>>>>> deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous 
>>>>>> glance shall bring you, whilst you rise from your bed, or walk abroad in 
>>>>>> the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous 
>>>>>> night. Our thinking is a pious reception. Our truth of thought is 
>>>>>> therefore vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, 
>>>>>> as by too great negligence. We do not determine what we will think. We 
>>>>>> only open our senses, clear away, as we can, all obstruction from the 
>>>>>> fact, and suffer the intellect to see. We have little control over our 
>>>>>> thoughts. We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments 
>>>>>> into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought for 
>>>>>> the morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. 
>>>>>> By and by we fall out of that rapture, bethink us where we have been, 
>>>>>> what we have seen, and repeat, as truly as we can, what we have b
 e
> held.  As far as we can recall these ecstasies, we carry away in the 
> ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It 
> is called Truth. But the moment we cease to report, and attempt to correct 
> and contrive, it is not truth."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_36Y4mG_CI
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