“Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
