the Rosicrucians were telepathically beaming pictures at him

Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Consider also:

  1. “Did our ancestors go peeping about with dark lanterns, and do we walk at our ease in broad sunshine? Where is the manifestation of our light? By what symptoms do you recognise it? What are its signs, its tokens, its symptoms, its symbols, its categories, its conditions? What is it, and why? How, where, when is it to be seen, felt, and understood? What do we see by it which our ancestors saw not, and which at the same time is worth seeing?”
  2. Is the progressive part of the world going to wait until the legally appointed guardians of the truth have found out the true value of the treasure in their possession?
  3. “like wine, grass, home-baked bread, a real nourishment for body and soul”
  4. “This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most.”
  5. “You may say the question aloud,” Hawthorne said. “We have no secrets here.”