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Not by knowledge, not by any prescience or traditional ideas, can we attain Brahma. But the Holy Spirit can be known by intuition, and joy is its winged messenger. "Mind can never know him," says the Indian sage in the Upanishad; "words can never describe him; he can only be known by our soul, and her joy in him, and her love." This is the last realisation, that of the infinite; attained through the breaking up of the finite, which tries to bind the universe in its meshes, and to tie beauty—to take Campion's phrase—to one form. It may seem that, in working through the