In this wonderful article with a profoundly suggestive title, Frithjof Schuon demonstrates that by Its nature, the Higher Reality refuses Itself to the profane inquiry, which was made "for this world" but at the same time, can reveal Itself to the metaphysical intuition; it reveals Itself to the “pneumatic”, to the saint, to the gnostic, to the sage; but with the rationalists, Godhead plays an inherent but unavoidable game of “hide and seek” as if God were trying to show them that He is not of this world and that the gate to His Kingdom will never be unlocked by some cunning physical or mathematical theory.
Here is the opening paragraph from this inspired article:
"The explorers of substance, of energy, of the indefinitely small and of the indefinitely large, proceeding from discovery to discovery and from hypothesis to hypothesis, may well plunge into the mechanism of the physical world; they will undoubtedly meet with a variety of instructive insights into the structure of the physical categories, but in fact they will never reach the end of their trajectory; the foundations of existence have something indefinite to them and will not surrender themselves. Isis is 'all that has been, all that is, and all that shall be'; and 'no one hath ever lifted my veil'. It is useless to try to do so, all the more so since in this order of magnitude the useless coincides with the pernicious, as is shown by the myths of Prometheus, Icarus, the Titans, and Lucifer, and as is proven to excess by the experiences of the last two centuries.(1) [Roots of the Human Condition, p. 15]".
(1) It should not be forgotten in this context that modern science operates with instruments - in the broadest sense - that in a traditional civilization could not exist; this means that there are kinds of knowledge that, strictly speaking, have no right to exist.
Motto
In our days, when the monstrous state of confusion that has engulfed humankind seems to have thrown individuals and societies in complete disarray, one feels almost embarrassed to bring into discussion lofty spiritual matters which may be regarded as inconsequential and naïvely idealistic compared to the grave human problems that our terrestrial existence raises every day. Two thousand years ago, the Bible foretold these circumstances for which René Guénon provided a more recent account: “... the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the divine, Earth has priority over Heaven, the individual sets the measure for all things and claims to dictate to the Universe laws drawn entirely from his relative and fallible reason (from “Individualism”, in “The Crisis of Modern World”).