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the saint and the scientist is not as to a matter of 

 fact, hut as to a matter of feeling. One reaches 

 through consciousness what the other reaches through 

 intellect, and the results differ just as the media 

 differ. There are fear, love, hope, and other emotions 

 mingled with the one experience, hut there are none 

 of these things mingled with the other. Indeed, 

 one is an experience while the other is a rational 

 process. 



XIII 



The region of the unconscious in one, so much 

 more deep and potent in some men than in others, 

 is our hold upon the Eternal. The disclosure of 

 thoughts, of knowledge, of power, that we did not 

 know we possessed — these things may he said to be 

 from God. The Biblical writers ascribed all spon- 

 taneous thoughts to God. Such were a revelation. 

 When these men looked deep into their hearts they 

 found God there and they conversed with him freely. 

 What we call communing with ourselves, the reli- 

 gious mind calls communing with God. Every writer, 

 every orator, knows what it is to see depths and views 

 open in his mind that are a surprise to him, and that 

 but a moment before he was ignorant of. This is 

 inspiration. All scriptures are given by inspiration, 

 because they come not by way of the reason and the 

 understanding, but by way of the conscience and the 

 spiritual sense ; all poetry the same. We call it 

 God or we call it genius, just according to our train- 

 ing and habit of mind. The mind does open some- 



