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Dr. Richard M. Bucke's theory that the standard age of these illuminations is thirty-six is untenable. Mozart died in his thirty-sixth year but he had had glimpses long before. So did many other historically known men in the Orient. To this must be added quite a list of others in the West as well as the East, in recorded history and out of it, who have also had the experience.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 4 : Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 56