This feeling is a possession slowly acquired by the human being, just as other astonishing powers which you admire in great men, warriors, artists, scholars, those who know and those who act, are acquired.

Thought, that budget of the relations which you perceive among created things, is an intellectual language which can be learned, is it not?
Belief, the budget of celestial truths, is also a language as superior to thought as thought is to instinct.

This language also can be learned.

The Believer answers with a single cry, a single gesture; Faith puts within his hand a flaming sword with which he pierces and illumines all.

The Seer attains to heaven and descends not.
But there are beings who believe and see, who know and will, who love and pray and wait.