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Religion begins in subjective experience: the mother seed of all religious belief lies in the mystical experiences of the individual, and every theology and ceremony is a secondary growth superimposed upon it. Religion, like charity, begins at home, with oneself.

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Religion, like charity, begins at home

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Blake On Religion ¶22
LectureBlake On Religion
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Affirm the Reality of Your Own Greatness ¶1
LectureAffirm the Reality of Your Own Greatness
for religion begins in subjective experience, like charity, it begins at home
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The Art of Dying ¶25
LectureThe Art of Dying
The mother seed of all religious beliefs lies in the mystical experiences of the individual. All ceremonies are but secondary growths superimposed upon it.
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The Birth of the Babe ¶15
LectureThe Birth of the Babe
Imagination is God, but it has to be experienced to be known, and no man’s experience is the same to another as his own experience.
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Law, Story-Telling, Picture-Taking ¶30
LectureLaw, Story-Telling, Picture-Taking
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Fawcett's Letter (Imaginism) ¶28
LectureFawcett's Letter (Imaginism)
Religion means devotion to the most exalted experience you have had. Do not try to rewrite it. Do not add to the tower of Babel.
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