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Few individuals are properly qualified to form a correct conception of the successful mystic's experience. If in the joy of his ecstasy he chooses to call it "the union with God," he does so because preconceived belief leads him to expect such "union." But when scientifically examined from inside no less than from outside--which means that the examiner can thoroughly know what he is talking about and appraise it at its true worth only if he has been both a practising mystic and, above all, an initiated philosopher himself--it will be found that the ecstasy mingles personal and emotional reaction to the awareness of the divine presence with the presence itself.

-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 1 : Their Meeting and Interchange > # 86