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God alone knows why this manifestation should be. Even the mystic never attains God in its fullness but only that ray of God within himself, which is the soul. Although such an attainment is imperfect in the conventional mystic, the philosophic one can hope to attain perfection. However, neither can cross the Overself's farthest boundary--but that is another matter.

-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 1 : Their Meeting and Interchange > # 128