particularly of God Himself, is acquired discursively and indirectly, something that demands the best that the mind and his intellectual traditions can offer in their pursuit. This, together with the Holy Scriptures’ affirmation of this difficulty, requires great care in one’s approach to the divine. Clearly, then, the knowledge of God’s essence is something that is not attained by the human mind in a direct fashion; God is not met as we meet other beings in the world. Nor, as was seen in Question