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384 TALKS ON " AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER ^ inside : (( Yes, this is the very truth for which I have so long been seeking. Here it is." But I could not have given you any actual reason. I could not have built up reasons by degrees, which made it very prob- able that this was true; but I could not have given you reason sufficient for so decided a stand of belief. I knew it by intuition. You will find that fairly constantly in your own case. You, who are old students of these things, have gradually built up a certain fabric of truth in your minds and from that there should be quite certainly a knowledge as to whether any new thing put before you will fit into its place in that scheme or not, and so you helve an intuitive feeling as to whether a thing is true or false, even though you cannot give a physical-plane reason for the intensity of your feeling. You can always argue and give reasons that will buttress your position ; but they are usually not sufficient to account for the intense certainty of your conviction. That is a case where the ego knows inside and has good reasons for his knowledge, but he cannot impress all the details for his reasons on your physical brain. Only the fact comes through that he knows. So when a new truth is presented to you, you know at once whether you can accept that or not- That is not superstition, although it may be difficult to distinguish. That is an intense inner conviction. I do not think you will ever find anybody ever had that intense inner conviction about hell. They believe because they