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Inner Voice

A channel of guidance received internally as a distinct voice or clear reply, addressable and answerable in dialogue, whose source — the practitioner's own higher consciousness, or an external discarnate or non-human intelligence — may be genuinely unknown to the one who receives it. Distinct from higher_self (one possible but not certain source of this voice, not the channel itself) and gnosis_direct_knowledge (unmediated apprehension of ultimate truth, not a two-way dialogic exchange with an addressable interlocutor).

3 passages · 2 traditions
western_esoteric: 2 passageswestern_esoteric2theosophy: 1 passagetheosophy1
western_esoteric2
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 20. Methods Of Defence IV-d
I got more and more uneasy, and X., being a good psychic, detected my uneasiness, and I was asked to withdraw from the group he was organising. I felt quite convinced that something sinister was being attempted against the group-mind of my…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 20. Methods Of Defence IV-e
At his request she wrote to me to enquire how I was faring, but mentioned no names, and I, not realising the significance of the incident, returned a non-committal answer. He heard my story and told me to leave the matter in his hands, whi…”
theosophy1
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 5)
As Hermes says, "Knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -- i.e., of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between th…”