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The character of these visions is often traceable to previously held ideas, to strongly held beliefs, or to hoarded suggestions. Ideas which he previously knew contribute towards and may even determine the ideas which are supposed to be revealed ones. Thus his interior revelation or clairvoyance is usually conditioned by his personal history and temperament.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 83