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He will then finally reach the stage that is before us all, when this new sense, the power of intuition, will be developed, and the supermental method of cognition will be unfolded. By its means man will gain knowledge on any subject whatsoever without needing the processes of deductive and inductive reasoning, and without the employment of any external senses, physical or psychic.44 This new faculty is showing itself even now. Its development and use proceed quite naturally at that stage of human evolution, which, in Christian language, is referred to as the birth of the Christ-child within the human soul. That Child is now being born within the soul of mankind. Its growth may be hastened by the dual means which have been explained. One day the Christ-child will grow into the “measure of the stature of the fullness or Christ”. Then all the powers of the soul and all the faculties of the consciousness will have been unfolded, and we shall be “perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect”.