If, however, it should be absolutely insisted upon that in some way or other a positive knowledge should be attained of that which philosophy can only express negatively as the denial of the will, there would be nothing for it but to refer to that state which all those who have attained to complete denial of the will have experienced, and which has been variously denoted by the names ecstasy, rapture, illumination, union with God, and so forth;
Zeren mundua nahimenaren autoezagutza baita. Baina horren gainean ezarri nahi izango bagenu, filosofiak negatiboki bakarrik nahimenaren ezeztapena gisa adieraz dezakeen horretatik nolabait ezagutza positibo bat lortzeko;