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 It is the office of revelation to address the higher faculties of intelligence and judgment and to provide spiritual facts and things that rescue from the inevitable conclusion of sensual reasonings. Revelation shows us that science, art, and human ability are not potential in the sun, but that they and all faculty and power are absolute in the Creator, coming to us from Him and unfolding out of the spiritual sunshine that He sends upon the evil and upon the good. Revelation not only opens a new world of interior causes and realities, but it also discovers human faculties that can cognize them and enter a life of spiritual understandings and blessings through intelligence from Him who is "the light of the world."

It is evident from history that there has never been a time when man did not claim to have revelation in some form, and even spoken "by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been