This is not easy.

In studying all such experience, we have to remember that the men and women of the Spirit are members of two orders.

They have attachments both to time and to eternity.

Their characteristic experiences indeed are non-temporal, but their feet are on the earth; the earth of their own day.

Therefore two factors will inevitably appear in those experiences, one due to tradition, the other to the free movements of creative life: and we, if we would understand, must discriminate between them.