Christianity: The Logic of Creation

I said in my last that the natural world, being the world merely of phenomena or appearance, is strictly unintelligible without some light or reve- lation derived from the spiritual and real world. The reason of this is not very far to seek. Every lover of Truth, every one who is able to discrimi- nate between Truth and fact, will not merely ad- mit, but will loyally insist that her infinite and spotless form transcends the sphere of sense, or discloses itself only to the eye of reason. All spiritual existence indeed, all those higher truths which affect the soul's life, truths of the Divine existence and operation, of the Divine Creation and Providence, exceed the capacity of sense, and report themselves only to a higher and interior consciousness. To suppose me, for example, sen- sibly cognizant of an exclusively Divine operation such as my creation is : to suppose me not merely believing that God is my life, or rationally assenting to that truth, but also actually knowing it, or Ren-