Climbing across

Transcendentalism, as viewed by its disciples,  was a pilgrimage from the idolatrous world of creeds and rituals to the temple of the Living God in the soul. It was a putting to silence of tradition and formulas, that the Sacred Oracle might be heard through intuitions of the single-eyed and pure-hearted.

William Henry Channing, quoted in P. Miller (ed.), The American Trancendentalists. Their Prose and Poetry (New York, 1957).

(Definition of to transcend: from the Latin transcendere, to climb across, thus to journey beyond the limits of everyday habits.)