 Just as there is an order of rational knowledge with its ‘degrees’, there is another order and degrees of suprarational knowledge—of a higher wisdom—that is beyond ‘natural knowledge’. These are, on the one hand, ‘the science of revealed mysteries’ or ‘theological wisdom’ and, on the other, ‘mystical theology’. Here, Maritain’s debt to Augustine and John of the Cross is particularly evident (see Barreiro 2008). According to Maritain, in theological wisdom, the divine is known by drawing not just on reason but on faith. (This is distinct from metaphysical knowledge which, so to speak, approaches the divine from the ‘outside’.) Mystical knowledge stands one level higher still—where there is no mediation by concepts—and “consists in knowing […] Deity as such—according to a mode that is suprahuman and supernatural” (The Degrees of Knowledge, 1932 [1959: 253]). This is a knowledge by connaturality, but also a knowledge that can be pursued through the practical discipline of ‘mystical contemplation’. In this way, human beings acquire a kind of knowledge that makes them more loving and more spiritual. (It is worth noting that, for Maritain, this mysticism extended beyond the Christian tradition. Not only did he refer to the example of Ramanuja, but he encouraged the future Indologist Olivier Lacombe to direct his “philosophical work towards the study of Indian mysticism” [Lardinois 2017: 314].) 