scious”; conscious confession and expression of thought is immaterial; the principal thing
is to be endowed with this new, higher, more refined, divine-human nature. This explains
their generally lofty bearing toward men not sharing their opinions. They belong to a sort
of spiritual aristocracy; they are of nobler descent, acquainted with more refined forms,
living a higher life, from which with pitying eyes they look down upon those who do not
dream their dreams of the higher life-tincture.
Let it suffice here only to say that the Reformed churches can not indorse this represent-
ation of the unio mystica, but must positively reject it.
XXV. Not a Divine-Human Nature