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When religion identifies itself with an ecclesiastical organization and forgets itself as an individual experience, it becomes its own enemy. History proves again and again that institutionalism enters only to corrupt the purity of a religion.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 177 -- Perspectives > Chapter 17: The Religious Urge > # 22