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hasten first to put off your base presumption, which is an unclean spirit, and a foul garment."-A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 147.
It is also interesting to know that the seven demons of the mystic thought are presumably the total of the three kinds of the base presumption, that is to say, of ignorance (namely, 1. falsehood, 2. mixed truth and falsehood and 3. truth tinged with superstition) and the four principal passions (anger, pride, deceit and greed). When these are destroyed, then alone can Right Faith be acquired by the soul.
