Many 'wisdom traditions' speak of some sort of affinity of truth. Light for light; wisdom cleaves to wisdom, and so on. The affinity of truth is identified as a deliciousness; when a new truth is discovered it is recognized as truth because it feels good.
This affinity spoken of is the consistency of truth. There are two separate avenues to ascertain the consistency of a new truth with all truth previously discovered and canonized by the mind: follow the logical progressions of the rational mind to all the seemingly related truths and an intuitive higher level vision of how the new truth fits in with all other truths on all levels. The latter requires the faith previously discussed here. The truth is intuitively consistent, it fits nicely in the jigsaw of all other truth known to this point, and so it is accepted on faith. This faith is an acceptance of something that is true without yet being able to recognize all the causes that make it an accurate representation of reality. But as long as the causes are sought for there is faith.
The one thing that should drive every self-respecting rational being mad is when he discovers an inconsistency in his mind's canonized truth. He should not be able to think about anything else until this is resolved by rejecting the inconsistent 'truth' or by modifying things in his belief set until all is mutually compatible once again. Any being who accepts paradox, supernatural, or otherwise unreal 'truth' is destined for a life of fear and misery.
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