"By love shall He be gotten and holden, by thought never." Next, consider for a moment the way in which the foreconscious does and must present its apprehensions to consciousness.

Its cognitions of the spiritual are in the nature of pure immediacy, of uncriticized contacts: and the best and greatest of them seem to elude altogether that machinery of speech and image which has been developed through the life of sense.

The well-known language of spiritual writers about the divine darkness or ignorance is an acknowledgment of this.

God is "known darkly." Our experience of Eternity is "that of which nothing can be said." It is "beyond feeling" and "beyond knowledge," a certitude known in the ground of the soul, and so forth.

It is indeed true that the spiritual world is for the human mind a transcendent world, does differ utterly in kind from the best that the world of succession is able to give us; as we know once for all when we establish a contact with it, however fleeting.