What is faith?

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4.What should the seeker have faith in?
3.There are so many scary things that can happen. should we be blind to them? won't we be disappointed?
2.The enlightened sufis spoke of letting go of intellect. how does that work?
1.Should we set aside our intelligence in favor of having faith?

Cainite, thanks for starting this thread!

This is a vast subject. Hope and trust are also related ... I think faith is the very essence of a seeker (and an adept). Especially in this veiled 3.d. Faith is basically accepting truth without proof and infinite possibility and walking into this space (like The Fool archetype). This means not denying rational intelligence but accepting its limitations and being open for something more. Truth without proof is seeing reality beyond/despite what appears to be the only reality. This can be Creator, angels, life after death, unity of all things, miracles etc. At some point the seeking becomes conscious. The seeker becomes aware of the deep desire for getting closer with the Creator=Truth. Faith opens the gate.

The vibratory distortion of sound, faith, is perhaps one of the stumbling blocks between those of what we may call the infinite path and those of the finite proving/understanding. (3.9)

The mystery and unknown quality of the occurrences [UFOs] we are allowed to offer have the hoped-for intention of making your peoples aware of infinite possibility. When your peoples grasp infinity, then and only then, can the gateway be opened to the Law of One. (7.12)

The mechanism of inspiration involves an extraordinary faculty of desire or will to know or to receive in a certain area accompanied by the ability to open to and trust in what you may call intuition. (38.4)

16.53 Questioner: All right. Continuing with what we were just talking about, namely densities: I understand then that each density has seven sub-densities which again have seven sub-densities which again have seven sub-densities. This expands at an extremely large rate as things are increased in powers of seven. Does this mean that in any density level anything that you can think of is happening? And many things that you never thought of are happening… are there… everything is happening… this is confusing…

Ra: I am Ra. From your confusion we select the concept with which you struggle, that being infinite opportunity. You may consider any possibility/probability complex as having an existence.

About balance between intellectual and intuitive mind (I think the same goes for reason and faith):

The function of intuition is to inform intelligence. In your illusion the unbridled predominance of intuition will tend to keep an entity from the greater polarizations due to the vagaries of intuitive perception. As you may see, these two types of brain structure need to be balanced in order that the net sum of experiential catalyst will be polarization and illumination, for without the acceptance by the rational mind of the worth of the intuitive faculty the creative aspects which aid in illumination will be stifled. (49.4)