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When a man receives or communicates a mystic experience, a divine revelation, he naturally receives it through, or communicates it along with, his preconceived opinions and traditionally absorbed views, his emotional prejudices and intellectual bias, his particular situation in time and place and his conscious or unconscious self-interest. It is limited by them, while his pronouncements are conditioned by them. A further element which intrudes into his interpretation is that of hidden desires and unconscious wishes. Rawson with his cult of an immortal bodily life represents this type of intrusion.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 57