When it is said that the Infinite Being cannot be known by the finite mind it is not meant that the Infinite Being is forever unknowable by human beings. For there is in every one of us a link between the two, and if a man is willing to let go of his worldly concerns long enough to find his way to that link--whether by reflection or by meditation--he will discover that this link--intuition--can lead him into the Infinite Presence. At that sacred moment he becomes IT because he forgets the personal self. It exists whether he exists or not, but he exists only in dependence upon it. If the very interesting question be asked, "How did the first man come to discover this Presence?" I suggest that the questioner read a little book, quite a short book called The Awakening of the Soul, written some hundreds of years ago in Arabic and translated first by an Englishman Edward Pococke. (Since then there has been a better and fuller translation made by some other hand, but I do not have the reference possibility here.) The author of the book was called Ibn Tufail. It is in the nature of a story, a sort of Robinson Crusoe story, but it is much more than that. I ought to mention that Pococke's translation, made in the seventeenth century was from the Latin into which the Arabic itself had been translated.
-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 1 : Their Meeting and Interchange > # 126
