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Mystics rely heavily on complex allegories to mask ideas

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Speaking clearly could easily get a rogue spiritual thinker into massive trouble. To avoid enraging orthodox authorities, profound insights were carefully hidden inside elaborate poetic metaphors about birds or gardens, keeping the real dangerous message strictly for the initiated.

Mystics rely heavily on complex allegories to mask ideas
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