Spiritual insight and salvation

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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · logic, method, and demonstration · limitations of reason · heart’s intuition · first principles · conversion and faith

Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · the test or trial (1) · exhortation (1)

Pascal's Pensées primary

Blaise Pascal · c. 1660 (notes compiled earlier/later, as left unfinished at his death)
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Pascal argues that first principles are known by the heart’s intuition (not proved by reason), while reason must trust them, and he urges waiting on God for spiritual insight when intuition is absent.

JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS 291 In the letter *On Injustice* can come the ridiculousness of the law that the elder gets all. "My friend, you were born on this side of the mountain, it is therefore just that your elder brother gets everything." "Why do you kill me?" 292 He lives on the other side of the water. 293 "Why do you kill me? What! do you not live on the other side of the water? If you lived on t…