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These explanations of mystic experience are not intended to explain it away altogether. We must not discount either its reality or its value merely because it may not be quite what the mystic himself sincerely believes it to be. We must not dismiss it as worthless phantasy. We must comprehend that it is the way in which a genuinely transcendental existence necessarily expresses itself to the human mind at a certain stage of the latter's development.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 1 : Mystical Life in The Modern World > # 60