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to the divine ground, Blake epistemological tools which can
also writes: help him to understand himself,
“Abstract Philosophy warring God, and universe. These
in enmity against Imagination”. epistemological tools should be
(Blake, Jerusalem, 5. 59, E 14) used accurately since man is
responsible to them in the other
Reason as A Bridge to Pure Life world. To state the matter
According to Schimmel differently, man must justify
“behind all the individual how he has used his perceptive
manifestations of the partial faculties. Eckhart states:
intellect is hidden the universal Up then, noble soul! Put
reason. This is the secret on thy jumping shoes
power from which the partial which are intellect and
reason can create immortal love, and overleap the
works and produce gardens worship of thy mental
which never fade”. (Schimmel, powers, overleap thine
1993: 272) understanding and spring
Man’s humanity depends on into the heart of God,
his thought and understanding. into his hiddenness where
If we remove thought and thou art hidden from all
understanding from human’s creatures. (Ref: Huxley,
existence, nothing will remain but 1945: 153)
a handful bones and organic
materials. Man was created in Contrary to partial reason,
a way to understand the truth universal reason could be
about the universe. considered as a bridge to union
In other words, God has with God. In other words, it is
equipped man with special considered as one of the
