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== Divine Purity ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p15</ref></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Divine purity: it is happy just to be, in all simplicity.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p16</ref></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For it should be said, surely, that purity as conceived on earth has nothing to do with divine purity. At the best it is an approximation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p19</ref></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For it should be saidIt is like the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. The divine purity, surelyat the lowest, allows no influence other than the divine influence—at the lowest. But that is already very much distorted; the divine purity as conceived on earth has means that there is only the Divine, nothing to do with divine purity. At else—it is perfectly pure, there is only the best it Divine, there is an approximationnothing other than Him.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0610/14aphorism-63-april64-195465#p19p31</ref></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is like the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. The divine purity, at the lowest, allows no influence other than the divine influence—at the lowest. But that is already very much distorted; the divine purity means that there is only the Divine, nothing else—it is perfectly pure, there is only the Divine, there is nothing other than Him.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31</ref>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and the divine purity of the gods.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#p13</ref></span>
== Ascetic Purity ==
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