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Even the vocabulary with which he explains the mystical experience to himself or transmits it to others is manufactured for him by the religious tradition of his land. It limits and even shapes his understanding, so that he does not receive the knowledge yielded by this experience as it is in itself.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 79