Far from being concerned exclusively with the rational intellect, this form of knowing was part of a broader principle of caring for the self.

The voice of the rational intellect may be soft, but it is in the end insistent and victorious.

M," said her companion, "is a poet of the intellect, rather than sentiment, clear and rational.

Thus, we have: intellect, rational intellect, reason, speculative reason, and speculation.

"A close scrutiny of these writers would reveal that they stood firmly for a rational intellect free of inhibitions or emotions,"

The rational intellect is side-stepped and one must look within.

Hence, without exclusively concerning the rational intellect, spiritual knowledge is integral to the broader principle of "caring for the self".

If that is true even of a cat, then is it not more perfectly true of a creature with rational intellect and will-whatever you may believe of Heaven?

No matter how rational the human intellect became, he wrote, it was constantly swimming in "the sea of the unknown."

Here suffering humankind found a cure for its rational, objective, cleft intellect, in a mystical totality experience, that let it believe in immortality, in an everlasting existence.