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The need of unwrapping particular theological clothes from mystical experience becomes clear when we note that Saint Teresa, brought up in the Roman Church, fit her trance revelations neatly into the Catholic dogmas, whereas a modern Christian mystic, Holden Edward Sampson, brought up in the Protestant Evangelical Church, was led by similar trance experience to regard those dogmas as false.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 9 : Inspiration and Confusion > # 11