To the personality struggling upward, with its aims set towards the highest in life, the spiritual life reveals itself.

He does not confine revelation to certain periods in time, and believes that such revelation comes to all spiritual personalities.
He holds, too, that the spiritual personalities are themselves revelations of the Universal Spiritual Life, and that the Spiritual Life does reveal itself most clearly in personalities.
How the revelation comes he does not discuss in any detail, but he is very certain that it comes through action and fight for the highest.
It is perhaps largely due to his activistic standpoint that Eucken does not deal with _prayer_.

In the _Truth of Religion_, which deals very fully with most aspects of religion, and purports to be a complete discussion of religion, no treatment of prayer is given.

He speaks of the developing personality as drawing upon the resources of the Universal Spiritual Life, but this appears to be in action, and not in prayer or communion.
He is ever suspicious of intellectual contemplation, and this leads him to attribute less importance than perhaps he should to _mysticism_, to prayer, adoration, and worship.

He admits that mysticism contains a truth that is vital to religion, but complains that it becomes for many the whole of religion.