written on the same subjects; but who they are, is more than they know
themselves. Thus much at least, I can say about all writers, past or
future, who say they know the things to which I devote myself, whether
by hearing the teaching of me or of others, or by their own
discoveries-that according to my view it is not possible for them to
have any real skill in the matter. There neither is nor ever will be a
treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition
like other branches of knowledge; but after much converse about the
matter itself and a life lived together, suddenly a light, as it were,
is kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and
thereafter sustains itself.
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