IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL
course inward continually he may open all the doors that lead to her and at length by the Divine permission contemplate the soul herself. But he supposes the objection made that "all those things which transcend our present state are matters for faith and not for intellect;" that the intellect should be "contented with this its lot, and not aspire to higher things which, inasmuch as they are sanctuaries and matters of Revelation, exist to faith only. . . . Where there is faith what need is there of demonstration? . . . Faith is above all demonstration because it is above all the philosophy of the human mind." His reply is, "I grant this; nor would I persuade any one who comprehends these high truths by faith, to attempt to comprehend them by his intellect: let him abstain from my books. Whoso believes Revelation implicitly, without consulting the intellect, is the happiest of mortals, the nearest to heaven, and at once a native of both worlds. But these pages of mine are written with a view to those only who never believe anything but what they can receive with the intellect; consequently who boldly invalidate and are fain to deny the existence of all supereminent things, sublimer than themselves—
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