Special Revelation as Objective

“Objective” is a term applied to outward things, in contrast to “subjective,” used to denote those things that belong to the conscious life. Thus whatever is considered as independent of the perceiving and reasoning self is “objective,” whereas all that belongs to the conscious life is termed “subjective.” We speak of a thing as having “objective reality,” that is, it is an object of perception and thought, a “thing” external to the mind, that goes on existing even when we are not thinking about it. The term “subjective” designates the contents of consciousness itself; the term “objective,” the raw material or subject matter of the consciousness (the word “matter,” of course, here not being restricted to its literal meaning).