35. Hence Denis says that this force in the soul is directly moved by the touch of the Holy Spirit and it is according to this touch that all of On Mystical Theology proceeds. "Now there is a law predefined by us, teaching us to assert the truth of God's Words, not in persuasive words of human reason, but in the power by which the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of Scripture according to which we are inexpressibly and unknowingly united to inexpressible and unknown things, according to the better power of our understanding and the operative union." By this motive power of the Holy Spirit comes a much greater and direct knowledge of God than is possible through any sort of investigating intellect or reason." pg. 165 Hugh of Balma
