This new, self-constituting consciousness structure discovers and surpasses the ultimate and most profound antithesis of rationalism between faith and knowledge, religion and science. Not only because it becomes gradually apparent to what an unsettling degree scientific theses themselves often emerge from presuppositions based on belief—even the world of numbers and their laws has a limited validity applicable only to the materialized aspects of our space-time world—but also because antitheses of this kind are not reconcilable with the new consciousness structure. It is in the transparency of faith and knowledge, and not with their aid, that the sphere of Being becomes perceptible in its entire diaphaneity.
Jean Gebser (The Ever-Present Origin, p. 529)
The Uncarved 