Chapter 30Difficulties of the Physical Nature · Agnosticism

These feelings are the usual attitude of the physical consciousness left to itself towards the Divine — a complete Agnosticism and inability to experience.2 2 The correspondent complained about the difficulty of knowing the Divine and said that he was on the verge of Agnosticism. His letter ends: “But even if I were to know Him, how would it affect the solid material facts of earth?” — Ed.

The knowledge of the impersonal Divine by itself does not affect the material facts of earth or at least need not. It only produces a subjective change in the being itself and, if it is complete, a new vision and attitude towards all things immaterial or material. But the complete knowledge of the Divine can produce a change in material things, for it sets a Force working which ends by acting even upon these material things that seem to the physical consciousness so absolute, invincible and unchangeable.