The sense of quest, of disillusion, of something lacking, is more common among modern men than its resolution in discovery.

Nevertheless the quest does mean that there is a solution: and that those who are persevering must find it in the end.

The world into which our desire is truly turned, is somehow revealed to us.

The revelation, always partial and relative, is of course conditioned by our capacity, the character of our longing and the experiences of our past.

In spiritual matters we behold that which we are: here following, on higher levels, the laws which govern aesthetic apprehension.
So, dissatisfied with its world-view and realizing that it is incomplete, the self seeks at first hand, though not always with clear consciousness of its nature, the Reality which is the object of religion.