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The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive of them and serves to mark them off from all other kinds of experiences, is that they involve the apprehension of an ultimate nonsensuous unity in all things, a oneness or a One to which neither the sense nor the reason can penetrate.

— Walter Terence Stace

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Thus to say that God is ineffable is to say that no concepts apply to Him, and that He is without qualities.

The true religious doctrine is that the world is to be both denied and not to be denied.

The same character of revelation, which we find in poetry, attaches to mystical illumination, although here the revelation is always the divine.

The pure religious consciousness lies in a region which is forever beyond all proof or disproof.

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