THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
absolute in intelligence with the absolute in love! The Holy
Spirit, the spirit of charity, should then conciliate all, and
transform all into His own light. Is it not the spirit of
intelligence, the spirit of science, the spirit of counsel, the
spirit of force? “He must come,” says the Catholic liturgy,
“and it will be, as it were, a newcreation ; and He will change
the face of the earth.”
“To laugh at philosophy is already to philosophize,” said
Pascal, referring to that sceptical and incredulous philosophy
which does not recognize faith. And if there existed a faith
which trampled science underfoot, we should not say that to
laugh at such a faith would be a true act of religion, for
religion, which is all charity, does not tolerate mockery; but
one would be right in blaming this love for ignorance, and in
saying to this rash faith, ‘Since you slight your sister, you
are not the daughter of God!”
Truth, reality, reason, justice, Providence, these are the
five rays of the flamboyant star in the centre of which science
will write the word “being,”’—to which faith will add the
ineffable name of God.
SOLUTION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL
PROBLEMS
FIRST SERIES
QUESTION. What is truth?
ANSWER. Idea identical with being.
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