Modern science, which is rationalist as to its subject and materialist as to its object, can describe our situation physically and approximately, but it can tell us nothing about our extra-spatial situation in the total and real Universe. Astronomers know more or less where we are in space, in what relative “place”, in which of the peripheral arms of the Milky Way, and perhaps they may know where the Milky Way is situated among other assemblages of star-dust; but they do not know where we are in existential “space”, namely, in a state of hardening and at the center or summit of it, while at the same time being on the edge of an immense “rotation”, which is none other than the current of forms, the “samsaric” flow of phenomena, the panta rhei * of Heraclitus. Profane science, in seeking to pierce to its depths the mystery of the things that contain—space, time, matter, energy—forgets the mystery of the things that are contained: it tries to explain the quintessential properties of our bodies and the intimate functioning of our souls, but it does not know what existence and intelligence are; consequently, given its principles, it cannot be otherwise than ignorant of what man is. (Excerpted from page 86.)

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* The Greek term panta rhei can be translated as "Everything is in flux," or "Everything is (always) flowing," or "Everything is (constantly) in a state of change."