The methods of mental and of spiritual knowledge are entirely different, for we know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing and defining it.

I must now plant as man, by becoming the man I want to be.

but we can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. We must be the thing itself if we would know that thing spiritually.

I must learn to know what love is spiritually by being in love.

He called the world into being by being the thing he would call.

whereas we can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. We must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it.