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A brilliant young astronomer at a famous English university said to me recently that what seemed to be needed was an agreed standard of criticism for religious truth, as he called it, a criterion of validity, as he explained. But if a synod of competent saints or mystics were to meet privately, they would still not agree. For at the core of every authentic mystical experience the mystics are united, but at its surface, where the power of suggestion and the limitations of ego come into play, they are not.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 110