AT THE CENTRE of every religion there is the vision of one who has seen all there is to see, a majestic realisation whose fundamental nature remains the same in every age and in every place, but can never truly be put into words. The mystic does his best to convey some sense of it to those attracted by his radiance.

But they, inevitably, understand and interpret his words in accordance with their own particular mind patterns and, before long, comes spiralling out from that pure rese