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All religious thought and speech are through and through symbolic. And this fundamental insight is perhaps as old as religion itself.

— 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.

Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.

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