{Revelation}[6th August 1987]

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I was recently for a while perplexed as to whether Revelation is to be expected as a process inward – to the individual passing through it – or outward – from the individual. The answer is simply both: the purer the revelation, the more the individual is merely a channel or conduit for the revelation, passing inward* to him from some higher source, through him so far as may be undistorted, and outward from him to the outer World. (For the sake of clarity, we describe as 'higher' here what is often described as 'inner' and felt as either or both.)

This perhaps explains the contradictory and even paradoxical urges at once to withdraw to the Wilderness and to engage with the World** – to listen inwardly and to speak outwardly – and above all, the apparently illogical insistence on simultaneous self-denial and 'self'-expression. Ultimately, perhaps, the World and the Wilderness become one: the process of inward*** and outward transmission – Revelation – becomes fused and instantaneous.

*=inwardly? <930425>

**{cf. Vol III!}

***reception? <930425>

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