The main objection to dependency on this spiritual approach to God is once again that it is a barrier to the true path of deeper faith. By payıng attention to such “locutions’, or seekng them out, a person does not live in the abyss of faith (AMC 2.29.7). Seeking these kinds of special instructions is an impediment to deeper faith. As Saint John of the Cross writes, the intellect should remain in obscurity and journey by love in darkness of faith and not by much reasoning” (AMC 2.29.5). Saint John of the Cross goes on to ask rhetorically why the intellect should deprive itself of such truths if the Holy Spirit illumines the intellect through them. His answer is that the superior illumination will always come by a recollection “purer and more refined” in faith, “in which there is no clear understanding” (AMC 2.29.6). Paying attention to the distinct or clear instruction is contrary to embracing “the communication of the abyss of faith” (AMC 2.29.7). This is far superior in worth, even though not immediatly satisfying to the mind or spirit. “In this faih God supernaturally and secretly teaches the soul and raises it up in virtues and gifts in a way unknown to it.” –‘Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation’ by Father Donald Haggerty