Livets Bog, vol. 1
The faculty of intuition as the basis of genius in every form of higher mental manifestation
197. By co-operation between the individual's embryonic body of feeling and the body of intelligence and the seed of the body of intuition, the highest and purest spiritual energies can be met with and utilized, these being genuine recollections of love or memories of a harmonized combination of the highest experiences of intelligence and the noblest experiences of feeling, partly to the benefit of the faculty of recognition, which gives the individual the greatest aptitude for knowledge, and partly to the benefit of an artistic sense, which gives to the same individual the greatest most consummate faculty for creation. As the very highest and complete aptitude for knowledge as well as for creation is the same as genius, no one will be able to attain genius in any form of spiritual manifestation unless on the basis of the faculty of intuition.