“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
