' The Infinite and Freedom '...

The way in which he got his first glimpse, especially if similar to subsequent ones, becomes a fixed form in his belief about it or in his search for a repetition of it.

This may become a handcuff, an unnecessary restriction which the finite self puts upon infinite being.

Those who have been instructed in philosophy and therefore in the way glimpses, with the reactions to them and the interpretations of them, happen are not likely to make this mistake; but those who know only religions, aesthetics, and other mysticisms may do so.

Let them not dogmatize but leave the Infinite its freedom.



-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 5: Preparing for Glimpses > # 167
Paul Brunton