Rational (extra-): Existence is a reality in some respects comparable to a living organism; it cannot with impunity be reduced, in man’s consciousness and in his modes of action, to proportions that do violence to its nature; pulsations of the “extra-RATIONAL”* pass through it from every quarter. Now religion and all forms of supra-RATIONAL wisdom belong to this extra-RATIONAL order, the presence of which we observe around us, unless we are blinded by a mathematician’s prejudice; to attempt to treat existence as a purely arithmetical and physical reality is to falsify it in relation to ourselves and within ourselves, and in the end it is to blow it to pieces. (* Ordinarily and in every sort of context, people speak of the “irRATIONAL,” but this is a dangerous abuse of terminology all too liable to reduce the supra-RATIONAL to the infra-RATIONAL.) (GTUFS: UIslam, The Path)