“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied: “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil.”
Here he speaks with a type of vanity which should put him on his guard. the problem with transendentalism as I see is it lies in the sin of pride. It teaches a way of discovering 'truths' dependant on no test and subject to none.
