The corruption of the highest knowledge and the results
207. But this highest knowledge through terrestrial mankind's own experience can appear only fragmentarily, and can sometimes be of an unfortunate nature; for instance, when the individual concerned, in a state of ecstatic joy or inspiration, still has in his mind the remains of such tendencies as anger, deceit, and desire for power. Then he disguises the fragment of true knowledge in inferior feeling material or intelligence material which will then make it of a more or less false character according to how advantageous it will be either for that individual's prestige or for the satisfaction of his lower desires. A manifestation of this kind can even take place in certain cases without the individual concerned being quite conscious of his corruption of the Light, for through incorrect self-knowledge and unconscious autosuggestion he cannot see that impurity which appears to him under the guise of Truth. These kinds of people can easily become zealots and the founders of fanatic movements or sects.
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