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

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

Thus we see that mysticism naturally, though not necessarily, becomes intimately associated with whatever is the religion of the culture in which it appears.

But it is not an exaggeration to say that mystical experience is everywhere unitary in the same sense that everywhere aesthetic experience is unitary. British, American, German, Indian, Chinese, Japanese art are of course very different from one another. Yet they have one root in their basic experience of beauty.