“Beyond the well-known outward and inward senses found in living beings, that bee—with its subtle, often unnoticed faculties such as sa’iqah (the sense of inner drive) and sha’iqah (the sense of enthusiasm)—comes to possess a kind of special attunement to most species in the world: a familiarity with them, interaction with them, exchange with them, and even a certain sphere of influence and ‘handling’ of its environment. Now, if life shows such an effect even in the smallest living creature, then as life rises to the highest level—the human level—it surely expands, unfolds, and becomes illuminated in a far greater way. So much so that, through consciousness (the light of life) and through reason, a human being can roam the worlds of the higher and spiritual realms, and the bodily realm—just as easily as he walks from room to room in his own home.”¹⁾

“A truthful dream is the heightened development of the sense of premonition—the ability to sense something before it happens. That sense exists in everyone, to a lesser or greater degree; it even exists in animals. At one time, I concluded—on a scholarly basis—that in both humans and animals, in addition to the well-known outer and inner senses, there are two further faculties, like hearing and sight, called sa’iqah (the sense of inner drive) and sha’iqah (the sense of enthusiasm).

People of misguidance and certain philosophers misunderstand these subtle, unnoticed faculties and foolishly call them ‘natural instinct.’ God forbid—this is not a blind ‘natural drive.’ Rather, it is a kind of innate inspiration: Divine destiny guides both human beings and animals through it. For example, when an animal such as a cat becomes blind, it is led—by that destiny-driven guidance—to an herb that serves as medicine for its eyes; it finds it, applies it, and recovers.

Likewise, birds of prey that feed on carrion—like eagles, which function as the ‘public health workers’ of the earth by disposing of the bodies of wild animals—are informed, through that destiny-driven guidance, that a carcass exists from as far as a day’s distance away; and they find it by the inspiration of that foreknowledge and by that Divine sa’iqah.

And likewise, a newborn bee—only one day old—can fly a day’s distance through the air and then, without losing its way, return to its hive and enter it again, guided by that destiny-directed impulse and by the inspiration of that sa’iqah.”²⁾

“Beyond the five outward and inward senses, the human being has many more ‘windows’ that open onto the unseen realm. He possesses many subtle, often unnoticed faculties of perception. Just as there are the senses of hearing, sight, and taste, so too there is an ‘instinct’ (sa’iqah)—a true ‘sixth sense.’ And there is also an illuminating ‘seventh sense’ (sha’iqah). That sense of inner drive and enthusiasm does not lie; it does not lead one astray.”³⁾

The Sense of Inner Drive

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