Our reflection on what we experience is never the same as the experience itself. The reflection on God in our act of knowing is never the experience itself of God. It is true to say that there are a priori conditions for knowing anything. We know things in the way that our very human nature allows us to know them. We are able to transcend ourselves.
Transcendental experience is a central concept.
We know ourselves as capable of knowing more. It is the human ability to know oneself. Knowledge of ourselves is more than knowledge of this or that dimension of our lives. In transcendental experience, there is an intuition of God. Granted, this intuition is not always conscious of itself.