The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 426

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FAITH

386 no

man

can ever say,

ble to prove to

him

"

know

this or

that" without

that his knowledge,

in a

being possi-

its

deeper sense and upon

closer analysis, depends, so far as its certainty is concerned,

upon

faith alone.

But we prefer not matter, because for it should be

to consider this deeper conception of the

confuses rather than explains the being of faith

it

remembered

that in Sacred Scripture the

Holy

Spirit

always uses words as they occur in the ordinary speech of daily life,

simply because otherwise the children of the Kingdom could And, in the daily life, people do not make

not understand them.

that closer distinction, but say, in the case above referred to

know that there heard him cry."

is

a

man

in the water, for

While, on the other hand,

I

saw

it is

:

"I

head and

his

I

said, in the ordi-

nary speech of daily life " If you do not believe me, I can not talk with you"; indicating the fact that, in regard to o. person, faith is the only means by which certainty can be obtained. And, keeping this in view, we shall, for the sake of clearness, present the matter in this way: that the Lord God has created man in such a way that he can obtain knowledge of two worlds, of the ;

world of visible things, and of that of invisible things but so that he obtains such knowledge concerning each in a special and peculiar manner. He obtains knowledge of the world of visible things by means of the senses, which are instruments designed to bring his mind into contact with the outside world. But the senses teach him nothing concerning the world of invisible things, for which he ;

needs altogether diflferent organs. We have no names for these other organs, as we have for the five senses yet we know that from that invisible world we receive impressions, sensations, emotions; we know perfectly well that these mutually differ in duration, depth, and power, and we also ;

know

that

some

of these aflfect us as real

and others as unreal.

In

fact the invisible world, as well as the visible world, exerts influ-

ences upon us; not through the five senses, but by means of unnamable organs. This influence from the invisible world affects This working the soul, the consciousness, the innermost ego. makes impressions upon the soul, excites sensations in the consciousness, and causes emotions in the inward ego. This is done, however, in such a way that there is always room Can I trust these for the question " Are these impressions real? :

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