' The colors of ideas and beliefs '...

It is not the original revelation of the Overself which theycommunicate or transmit but the impact of the revelation upon their own mentality.

A prism does not transmit the pure white light which strikes against it but only the several colors of the spectrum into which it breaks that light.

The mystic's mentality is like a prism and breaks the pure being of the Overself into the egoistic colors of ideas and beliefs.




-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives >
Chapter 9: Inspiration and Confusion > # 76
Paul Brunton