Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 125

Chap.

THE

§ 42.

I]

relations,

SPIRITUxVL SCIENCES

and in our consciousness between the correspond-

ing perception of the element and examination of

Always with

tions.

101

this

difference in

its

view, that in

rela-

the

world of matter the element works upon our consciousness through the senses, Avhich provokes the action of the power while with the spiritual sciences the of representation element does not work upon the senses, neither through the representation, but in keeping with its spiritual nature affects our consciousness subjectively, and finds a receptivity in our subject which renders this emotion possible. And this emotion may be constant, and thus result in a permanent sense, or it may be accidental, in which case it falls under the conception of inspiration. In the trans;

mission

the

of

object

of

the spiritual

sciences into

our

consciousness the same process takes place as in the dis-

covery of our consciousness to the object of the natural In each case we take uj) into ourselves the element

sciences.

and the relations differently In each case the receptivity must be present in us for the elements and for the relations. And in each case it is our tlmiking that makes us know the relations, while the perception of the element comes to us from the object itself. But these two sciences differ, in that the element of the visible world enters into our consciousness by a different way than the element of the spiritual world the elements of the visible world working upon our powers of representation through the senses, while in entire independence of our senses and of any middle link known to us, the elements of the spiritual world affect our subject spiritually, and thus to our apprehension appear to enter .

;

immediately into our consciousness.

Thus the

science of the spiritual object

is

derived from the

man but always in such a way, that here also our individual subject may never be taken independently of its organic relation to the general subject of the human race. The individual investigator who seeks to construct the spiritual sciences exclusively from his own subjective

subjectivity in

;

perceptions, virtually destroys thereby the very conception of science,

and he

will

have no place for Philology, History,

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