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It is not likely that science, which is basically the cause of our spiritual troubles, is likely also to produce the cure for them. Also it lies in the nature of science that, though it can teach us the best means for achieving our ends, it can never tell us what ends to pursue.

— 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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