TCR 280 - thinking spiritually, thinking naturally

TCR 280 [9]

'A further point is that thinking spiritually
means thinking without using time and space;
thinking naturally involves time and space.
For every idea of natural thought,
but not of spiritual thought,
has something of time and space clinging to it.
This is because the spiritual world is not in space and time,
as is the natural world,
though it has the appearance of both of them.
Thoughts and perceptions also differ in this respect.
For this reason you can think
of God's essence and omnipresence from eternity,
that is, of God before the creation of the world,
because you think about God's essence
with no idea of time,
and about His omnipresence
with no idea of space.
Thus you grasp ideas
which are far beyond the natural ideas of men.'