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Ultimate reality is incommensurate with our own illusoriness and imperfection; therefore it cannot be understood by means of intellectual operations; for intellectual operations depend on language and our vocabulary and syntax were evolved for the purpose of dealing precisely with that imperfection and illusoriness. Ultimate reality cannot be understood except intuitively, through an act of the will and the affections. ‘Plus diligatur quam intelligatur’ was a common place of scholastic philosophy. ‘Love can go further than understanding’; for love enters where science remains out of doors. We love God in his essence but in his essence we do not see him.
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Grey Eminence page 51
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