This limitation is ignored by us at our peril.

The great mystics, who have sought to strip off all image and reach--as they say--the Bare Pure Truth, have merely become inarticulate in their effort to tell us what it was that they knew.

"A light I cannot measure, goodness without form!" exclaims Jacopone da Todi.[83] "The Light of the _World_--the Good _Shepherd_," says St.John, bringing a richly furnished poetic consciousness to the vision of God; and at once gives us something on which to lay hold.
Generally speaking, it is only in so far as we bring with us a plan of the universe that we can make anything of it; and only in so far as we bring with us some idea of God, some feeling of desire for Him, can we apprehend Him--so true is it that we do, indeed, behold that which we are, find that which we seek, receive that for which we ask.

Feeling, thought, and tradition must all contribute to the full working out of religious experience.

The empty soul facing an unconditioned Reality may achieve freedom but assuredly achieves nothing else: for though the self-giving of Spirit is abundant, we control our own powers of reception.