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If a man has not sufficiently purified his nature and correctly prepared his faculties, all his mystical experiences of God or the Soul will not be truly mystical at all but emotional counterfeits or psychical self-deceptions. That is to say, he will have them within the circle of his personal ego, however thrilling or delightful or revelatory they may be. He will merely escape from one kind of illusion (the world's materiality) into another kind (his own spirituality).

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 9 : Inspiration and Confusion > # 86