ABSTRACT
The author would go a step further and say that the statements made in the Holy Scriptures are also utterances of the soul, even at the risk of being suspected of psychologism. The fact that religious statements frequently conflict with the observed physical phenomena proves that in contrast to physical perception the spirit is autonomous, and that psychic experience is to a certain extent independent of physical data. From the point of view of consciousness, people can, of course, describe them as objects, and even explain them up to a point, in the same measure as people can describe and explain a living human being. The psyche is an autonomous factor, and religious statements are psychic confessions which in the last resort are based on unconscious, on transcendental, processes. In the realm of psychic processes criticism and discussion are not only permissible but are unavoidable.
