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Just as Islam allows no portrait, no graven image to represent the man Muhammed; just as Buddha forbade any figure of himself to be made or used (a prohibition disobeyed after a century or two); just as the Jews were willing to be executed rather than to allow Caesarian deificatory effigies newly brought to Jerusalem to be displayed, so philosophy holds that no words can ever describe, no concept ever express, no human leader ever incarnate the ineffable truth, and that all assertions to the contrary merely defile truth. IT cannot be confined.

-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2 : Our Relation To the Absolute > # 15