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What are the signs whereby he shall know that this is an authentic glimpse of reality? First, it is and shall remain ever present. There is no future in it and no past. Second, the pure spiritual experience comes without excitement, is reported without exaggeration, and needs no external authority to authenticate it.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 7 : After the Glimpse > # 199


-- Perspectives > Chapter 22: Inspiration and the Overself > # 60