As long as a being has too much intelligence in relation to feeling, or too much feeling in relation to intelligence it cannot be an absolute or perfect "artist", and but must remain an unfinished "Adam" or "Eve"
1154. Now if the mentality of the being already comprises too much "feeling" in relation to "intelligence", or too much "intelligence" in relation to "feeling", it will be absolutely impossible for it to sense logically, which here means, to perceive absolute life, or sense absolute reality. The being's sense of this life or reality, which in turn means, its mental image of its fellow beings, its surroundings and its own life, will be characterised by the excess of "feeling" or the excess of "intelligence" that has influenced the being's sensory faculty in its creation of cognition or perception. And since this new perception is in turn a contributing force behind the being's exercise of its will or the creation of its future appearance and mentality, behind its use of its talents and its satisfaction of its desires, this appearance is thus also correspondingly in disharmony with the being's further contact with life or sensory perception of life and the manifestations and creations ensuing from this. These manifestations and creations must therefore inevitably be correspondingly untrue or unreal. And the being comes to base its life on the opposite of life itself, and believes or perceives this opposite to be life itself. It thus bases its life on an illusion. And with this attitude to life as its basis, everything that it perceives, thinks and creates must likewise be illusory. It avenges and hates, murders and kills, lies and cheats, cries and laughs, loves and caresses; in every way it treats its surroundings or its neighbour on the basis of the illusion that it itself wholeheartedly perceives as reality. That its way of acting or its appearance in such a situation cannot possibly be a true expression of absolute reality is of course obvious. But if it cannot produce a genuine expression of absolute reality, it cannot be an absolute "artist" either. An absolute "artist" can be only a being that can produce a correct expression of absolute reality or truth. Expressions for the absolute truth or the absolute structure of life itself must inevitably be untrue when they are produced by an "artist" whose senses or sensory energies are combined in such a way that they completely distort his experience of life, turning it into something quite different from what it is. Is it not conceivable that it is this illusory sensory state that the great, divine Creator saw in "Adam" and "Eve" when He commanded them to "subdue the Earth"?
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