TCR 11 - Faith, Knowledge, Understanding

TCR 11 [3]

Faith in God enters into a a person by an inner way,
from the soul into the higher parts of the understanding.
Knowledge concerning God,
from which are formed conceptions of Him,
enters by an outer way,
because it is derived from the revealed Word
by the understanding through the senses of the body.
Both these forms of influx
meet midway in the understanding.
There natural faith,
which is merely persuasion,
becomes spiritual faith,
which is real acknowledgment:
the human understanding therefore, is, as it were,
a place of exchange, or a refining vessel,
in which the change takes place.