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The Sufis even use the term "veiling" when referring to ecstatic mystic experiences and discussing them with students sufficiently advanced to profit by this advice. Indeed one of the Sufi masters whose name was Junaid and who lived in the ninth and tenth centuries, wrote that his ecstasies vanished altogether as he advanced to a higher stage.

-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 4 : Seek the Deeper Stillness > # 36