AC 2538 - Doctrine

AC 2538 [2]

In regard to doctrine the case is this:
Insofar as there is what is human
(that is, what is of sense,
of memory-knowledge, and of the rational)
as the ground of belief,
so far the doctrine is null and void.
But insofar as what is of sense, of memory-knowledge,
and of the rational is removed,
that is, insofar as doctrine is believed
without these things,
so far doctrine lives;
for so far the Divine flows in.
It is that which is proper to the human
that hinders the influx and the reception.
But it is one thing to believe from what is of the rational,
of memory-knowledge, and of sense
(that is, to consult such things in order to believe),
and quite another thing to confirm and corroborate
by means of things rational,
of memory-knowledge, and of sense,
that which is believed.