But this idea is shocking only because even
the most advanced minds are seldom Illumined, their advancement being along
the lines of intellectual research and _acquired knowledge_, which, as we
have previously explained, is not synonymous with _interior wisdom_.
The illumined mind is bound to find in the eternal and ever-present fact of
sex, the key to the mysteries--the password to immortal godhood.
The subject is one that cannot be set forth in printed words; this fact is,
indeed, the very Plan of Illumination. It cannot be _taught_. It must be
_found_. Only those who have glimpsed its truth can even imperfectly point
the way in which it _may_ be discovered. No teacher can guarantee it. It is
the most evanescent, the most delicate, the most indescribable thing in the
Cosmos. It is therefore the most readily misinterpreted and misunderstood.
Balzac doubtless understood, not as a matter of perception of a truth but
as an experience, and this fact, if no other, marks him as one having a
very high degree of cosmic consciousness.
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