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God is unfathomable and unknowable. Every idea of Him is a false idea, created to satisfy our little human mental need but also sharing our finite human limitations. That is, the idea describes something about man, nothing about God. We prefer to delude ourselves with such images and idols, rather than to take off our shoes at the very remembrance of God and enter the mosque of the Silenced Mind. Here, at least, we get no untrue concepts which have to be discarded in the end. Here the awakened faint or strong intuition may get intimations godlike in quality, of THAT which must always remain incomprehensible to the intellect.

-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2 : Our Relation To the Absolute > # 124