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Whatever men may say or write about the divine will always fall short of the actuality. This is so for three reasons. First, the Real transcends thoughts and their clothes, words. Without personal experience of it, and achieved insight into it, the intellect yields opinion only. Second, each man sees and says from his own standpoint, gives his own reaction to the divine. This is always an individual one. Third, there are many aspects of the divine. Muhammed listed no less than one hundred, without exhausting them. So far their totality has eluded description. Let no one insist on his own picture of the divine as being the whole one. Let no one set up his favoured symbol of it and exclude all the others from the right of worship.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 2 : Organization, Content of Religion > # 145