It seems to me the most muscular form of faith would be one that involves a conscious choice to presuppose the objects of faith—to live as though they were true—while still remaining aware that they themselves may have no actualization in the material world. This would be a complete faith, exercised by choice and aware of non-actuality. Its impact would still register in every facet of reality, including the material, without its being literal. Immature faith conflates the objects of faith with the material world, and believes them in a literal way. The ironic corollary to this conflation is separation—a dichotomy and a dualism between the mundane and the spiritual. Just as ironically, to separate the objects of faith from their material actualization, allowing objects of faith and the laws of the material world each to be free and functional in their own right and part of a larger whole, evaporates the dichotomy between them and frees one to enjoy the impact of faith on life without needing to strive any longer—inwardly or outwardly—over the material actuality of objects of faith themselves. 'Go your way; your faith has made you whole.'
