Instead of being intellectual knowledge, this is heart knowledge, intuitive recognition of deeper, hidden aspects of ourselves, and of each other. Furthermore, this kind of knowing (gnosis, in Greek) involves paradox. And its secret is this: First, we need to know that we cannot “know God” in the sense of comprehending the Source of all being, since that Source far transcends our understanding. At the same time, what we need to know, and what we can know, is that we are intimately connected with that Source.
