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The rites and forms of religion arise logically from the point of view that God is separate from, and external to, the creatures in the universe. Hence the worship of, and communion with, God must be an external affair too. The theories and exercises of mysticism, however, arise from the point of view that God is internally linked to all creatures.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 1 : Mystical Life in The Modern World > # 43