The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and the… - Walter Terence Stace

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

The real turning point between the medieval age of faith and the modern age of unfaith came when the scientists of the seventeenth century turned their backs upon what used to be called “final causes.” The final cause of a thing or event meant the purpose which it was supposed to serve in the universe, its cosmic purpose.

The incommensurability of the mystical with the sensory-intellectual consciousness is also the ultimate reason why we have to exclude visions and voices, telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance from the category of the mystical.