Knowledge of God is the outcome, not of definite dogmatic instruction in theology, but of spiritual growth.

Knowledge, whatever may be its object, is always the outcome of growth.

Even knowledge of _number_ is the outcome, not of definite dogmatic instruction in the arithmetical rules and tables, but of the growth of the arithmetical sense.

It is the same with literature, the same with history, the same with chemistry, the same with "business," the same with navigation, the same with the driving of vehicles in crowded streets, the same with every art, craft, sport, game, and pursuit.

In evolving a special sense, the soul is growing in one particular direction, a direction which is marked out for it by the environment in which it finds it needful or desirable to energise.