Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.