This intervention of memory and emotion in our perceptions is entirely involuntary; and explains why the devotee of any specific creed always finds in the pure immediacy of religious experience the special marks of his own belief.
In most acts of perception--and probably, too, in the intuitional awareness of religious experience--that which the mind brings is bulkier if less important than that which it receives; and only the closest analysis will enable us to separate these two elements.

Yet this machinery of apperception--humbling though its realization must be to the eager idealist--does not merely confuse the issue for us; or compel us to agnosticism as to the true content of religious intuition.

On the contrary, its comprehension gives us the clue to many theological puzzles; whilst its existence enables us to lay hold of supersensual experiences we should otherwise miss, because it gives to us the means of interpreting them.

Pure immediacy, as such, is almost ungraspable by us.

As man, not as pure spirit, the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies: that is to say, he took to the encounter of the Infinite the finite machinery of sense.