The second is physiological: For just as the eye does not apprehend sensible phenomena without sunlight, so the human mind could never receive spiritual vision without spiritual light. For the one illumines natural sense enabling it to apprehend bodies, while the other illumines the mind for contemplation, bringing it to comprehend realities beyond sense.181 According to their natural, created state, human faculties in their psycho-somatic totality are receptive to divine revelation since they are
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