Indescribability

Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability.

These ideas may seem at first sight somewhat startling; but when we realise the extraordinary depth and indescribability of the emotions of music, the very remoteness and far-reachingness of the explanation is in favour of its validity.

This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of "crude extensity" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what — to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability — we may well call sense. Forms are seen, and if we think of the origin of the perception, we may well call this vision a sensation.

But the unembodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!

The featurelessness of the affective quality, on the other hand, its indescribability, is due to the very simplicity of its relation to the organism.

This emphasis on the indescribability of God in intense religious experience is consistently found in the more mystical religious traditions.

The clothed embodied justice that sits in Westminster Hall, with penalties, parchments, tipstaves, is very visible. But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!