Chapter 95255–257

257 – Faith in the heart is the obscure and often distorted reflection of a hidden knowledge. The believer is often more plagued by doubt than the most inveterate sceptic. He persists because there is something subconscient in him which knows. That tolerates both his blind faith and twilit doubts and drives towards the revelation of that which it knows.

Is it good to have a “blind faith” which neither questions nor reasons?

What men usually call blind faith is in fact what the Divine Grace sometimes gives to those whose intelligence is not developed enough to have true knowledge. So blind faith can be something very respectable, although it is of course clear that one who has true knowledge is in a far superior position.

29 December 1969 To which plane does faith belong — mental or psychic?

Faith is an exclusively psychic phenomenon.

30 December 1969 258 – The world thinks that it moves by the light of reason, but it is really impelled by its faiths and instincts.

259 – Reason adapts itself to the faith or argues out a justification of the instincts; but it receives the impulse subconsciously, therefore men think that they act rationally.

260 – The only business of reason is to arrange and criticise the perceptions. It has neither in itself any means of