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The mystic whose revelations can fit only into the framework of a narrow sect, whose inspirations are hostile to all other religions except the one in which he was born, may be getting a genuine inspiration, but he is also drawing on his own ego for the unconscious interpretation of what is being revealed to him. Consequently, he does not give us the pure truth, but rather the distorted truth. If he brings light into the world, he also brings back some of the old darkness in another guise; thus the result is a mixed one--partly good, but partly bad.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 9 : Inspiration and Confusion > # 87