But constantly the foreconscious--which, as we shall do well to remember, is the artistic region of the mind, the home of the poem, and the creative phantasy--works up its transcendent intuitions in symbolic form.

For this purpose it sometimes uses the machinery of speech, sometimes that of image.

As our ordinary reveries constantly proceed by way of an interior conversation or narrative, so the content of spiritual contemplation is often expressed in dialogue, in which memory and belief are fused with the fruit of perception.

The "Dialogue of St.Catherine of Siena," the "Life of Suso," and the "Imitation of Christ," all provide beautiful examples of this; but indeed illustrations of it might be found in every school and period of religious literature.
Such inward dialogue, one of the commonest spontaneous forms of autistic thought, is perpetually resorted to by devout minds to actualize their consciousness of direct communion with God.

I need not point out how easily and naturally it expresses for them that sense of a Friend and Companion, an indwelling power and support, which is perhaps their characteristic experience.