We have seen that all true prayer is in Christ and is in the form of petition or desire, the ‘ground of our beseeching’ being the Incarnate Word who is semper interpellans pro nobis, making unceasing petition on our behalf. In order to recognise the full import of this healing doctrine we must go deeper to discover the ground of the whole spiritual life, particularly the ground of the full Christian life of union. And when we come to consider this ground we have always to insist on its subjective element. Of course the ground of the Christian life is Christ, of course it is life per Christum in Trinitate; and yet it is possible even with this realisation to be carried away into a misty conception of the spiritual life which is really no more than some high poetic, or perhaps neo-platonic, yearning for the One, the super-essential Being in whom we live and move and have our own being. Therefore it is necessary to purify this objective conception of the Christian life of union with the subjective: in other words the ground of all Christian life and all Christian experience and perception is the Faith. Nothing. neither visions nor experiences, neither the gifts nor the heights of prayer, can supersede in this life the faith which alone puts us in direct relationship with the intimate life of the Godhead.