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he is neither the known nor the unknown. That 

 which cannot be expressed by words, but through 

 which all expression comes, this I know to be 

 Brahma. That which cannot be thought by the 

 mind, but by which all thinking comes, this I know 

 is Brahma. That which cannot be seen by the eye, 

 but by which the eye sees, is Brahma. If thou 

 thinkest that thou canst know it, then in truth thou 

 knowest it very little. To whom it is unknown he 

 knows it, but to whom it is known he knows it 

 not." 



Science is rubbing deeper and deeper into our 

 minds the conviction that creation is a unit, that 

 there are no breadths or chasms, that knowledge of 

 one thing fits in with the knowledge of all other 

 things and is a ground of vantage in the soul's pro- 

 gress in all directions. The more active a man's 

 scientific faculties are, the more clear ought to be 

 his view of the grounds of faith ; and so it would 

 be it the grounds of faith were continuous with the 

 grounds of the rest of human knowledge. But they 

 are not, they belong to another order of things. 



Poetic truth, moral truth, and all other subtle 

 truths are spiritually discerned also ; and that there 

 is any other spiritual discernment than is here im- 

 plied, any other that is normal in kind and valid 

 in reason, is what the natural man cannot admit. 

 Spiritual discernment of the kind here referred to 

 can be communicated, proof of it can be given. A 



