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When we understand that it is not possible for any man to free himself totally from personal standpoints, we understand that all mystical communications and religious revelations are afflicted with relativity and are consequently imperfect--all, that is to say, except those where the recipient has sought and sought successfully to transcend his humanity. Such an effort is embodied in the philosophic discipline. Such recipients were men like Gautama and Jesus.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 134