“When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince our- selves it isn’t so.” (Page 49, Big Book)
A charcoal drawing on a canvas did not draw itself.
Its sense lies in the mind of the artist and in the mind of the viewer.
It cannot discern that sense by self-examination.
The two dimensions cannot understand even themselves because they require the third and the fourth.
The three dimensions cannot understand even themselves because they require the fourth.
The material cannot make sense of itself because it requires the spiritual.