You don’t need a “sensus divinitatis,” instead empiricism and faith come together if the soul is examined. Men are not doing this because it is immensely difficult and such knowledge comes only in tiny stages. If the soul is seen and known, then you know the external God exists because the marks of the Creator’s hand are found therein. Such a science has not been begun in any of the religions, but one place to start is identifying and cataloging the powers of the mind. Again, even the most advanced human gurus simply use the mind, without examining it, like drivers pressing the accelerator but ignoring the engine, therefore these gurus universally declare there is no external God. However there are a few gurus who interlace teachings about the external God in their works which otherwise can seem similar to this lower class of gurus, and these have seen the soul.
The idea behind a “sensus diviniatatis” is that any man would be equipped to inquire about the existence of the external Deity, but such is not the case. No such sense exists, and the lower class of gurus are one of the proofs, very advanced in discourse but very poor in spiritual experience. Generally men who think they see or “feel” God, are mislabeling varied mental phenomena ultimately springing from themselves, not God.
I’ve come to calling this higher class the “cognoscenti,” because they are knowers. They may not have direct spiritual experiences, but the marks of this inner knowledge are seen in their lives, the way the Bible says the good will be known by their works. In general this class can understand higher principles, and live in a higher mode that is based in spiritual reality rather than sensate reactivity. So far, they remain in hiding among men.
