How Do We Know Spirit?

In our endeavor to understand spirit, we have only reached the stage of apprehending spirit conceptually through thinking. Perhaps the best way to understand human thinking is to observe modern thought as it appears in John stuart mill or herbert spencer. We move spiritually in a distilled element when we think, extremely rarefied. When a longing arises to make spirit increasingly a human possession? Excuse me, then a longing arose to make spiritincreasingly a human possession. In reality those symptoms dominate every sphere and sent the thinking of our civilization. There it is, and that is where we must look for it.