Its God was only a gigantic man, its heaven a mansion of carnal pleasures.

From these imperfect ideas its more intelligent classes very soon freed themselves, substituting for them others more philosophical, more correct.

Eventually they attained to an accordance with those that have been pronounced in our own times by the Vatican Council as orthodox.

Thus Al-Gazzali says: "A knowledge of God cannot be obtained by means of the knowledge a man has of himself, or of his own soul.

The attributes of God cannot be determined from the attributes of man.