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We may develop the scientific intellect until its visible achievements and results astound us even more, but they will always be relative to time and place, always subject to human limitations. But there is another line we could take for development, one that works with the metaphysical intellect. This need not set up an opposition to science, for it is not concerned with empirical work. It is a faculty of abstract thinking, seeking the large generalized archetypal ideas. When it succeeds in finding them, their verification is to be got by letting the intellect lapse and letting the pure knowing element reveal itself. In this way consciousness moves to a higher level.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 6 : Science > # 110