Religion and Science
9. A Last Word
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which no more than a fraction has ever yet
been penetrated by — or been revealed to —
any human mind. ‘The heart of so great a
mystery cannot ever be reached, by following
one road only’. However strong and confident
may be my conviction that my own approach
to the mystery is a right one, I ought to be
aware that my field of spiritual vision is so
narrow that I cannot know that there is no
virtue in other approaches. In theistic terms
this is to say that I cannot know that other
people’s visions may not also be revelations
from God —and these perhaps fuller and
more illuminating revelations than the one
that I believe that I myself have received from
Him.
Moreover, the fact that I and my neighbour
are following different roads is something that
divides us much less than we are drawn
together by the other fact that, in following
different roads, we are both trying to
approach the same mystery. All human
beings who are seeking to approach the
mystery in order to direct their lives in
