The idea that the soul is infinitely perfectible and capable of continually growing in wisdom has profound implications for science as well as for religion. Although Nasr sense of the sacred is firmly grounded in the rational and empirical, he speaks critically of the attempt of Rudolf Otto to relate the sacred to the irrational in his work Das Heilige and others. In other worlds, one must comprehend these disciplines and go through the rational to go beyond it. This is true of both scientific and religious through.