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It is true that even in the prose of a philosophically trained sage his intellectual development, emotional disposition, and individual character will influence the choice of words and the style of language in which he expresses his revelations or knowledge. But the value of his self-criticizing discipline will also show itself in that they will not be permitted to influence the revelation or the knowledge itself. The personality of the inspired writer or speaker cannot be eliminated from the phraseology he employs, but the purity of his receptivity to the true Idea requires and is dependent on such elimination. The philosophic discipline secures it.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 141