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The ceremonies and beliefs of institutional religions are useful, even necessary, on the level of consciousness for which those religions have been created; but they do not assist the mind to rise to the higher levels of metaphysical and, especially, philosophical religion. For these are concerned with a far higher quality.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 3 : Religion As Preparatory > # 12