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The inspired individual who has climbed Sinai on his own feet and received the Tablets of God's Law with his own hands has merely a small fraction of the power, influence, and prestige of the be-robed representative of organized religion, who knows God only at second hand and through others, who has no inspiration with which to bless men and no real power to save them.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 3 : Religion As Preparatory > # 136