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Although the truth--as being--cannot be passed by the illuminate who has it to the unenlightened ones who do not have it, that does not deter him from making the effort. What he is able to give them is either an intellectual formulation or an emotional presentation but in both cases it is something made in his own image because passed through his own personality. So his followers receive not the inspiration which lit up the universe for him, but the imagination which he is forced to substitute in its place.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 153