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 edge, to be knowledge, must be clear, comprehensible, and as conclusive as any knowledge.

Because science, in the generally accepted sense, does not reach up to spiritual things, does not deal with that invisible and intangible to the corporeal senses, revelation is imperative, and for this reason it is given. Revelation brings to the perceptions what reason can confirm. Revelation is the guide of reason and the goal to which it should ascend.

Primarily the spiritual is the subject of revelation, because reason unaided by revelation would never suggest even so much as the existence of the spiritual.

Because the spiritual lies beyond that plane of the mind which science occupies, it should not be thought that the spiritual is more uncertain, speculative or imaginative than science itself. There is another plane of the mind as much higher than the scientific plane as the