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Whereas Saint Thomas Aquinas stopped writing his books when the inner experience came to him, Shankaracharya started writing his own. Thus one and the same kind of spiritual consciousness illuminating two different kinds of mind brought about two different and opposite decisions! What does this show? That the human mind does colour the revelation's reception or its communication.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 9 : Inspiration and Confusion > # 44