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Life is too short, our days too hard-pressed to spare the time to dig out the shadowy meanings of these unnecessarily obscure writers of occultism and alchemy when the plain statements of those writers who do not belong to such cults will yield clear meanings with only one-twentieth of the study. It is an insult to modern intelligence to ask it to get itself involved with all the tortuous draperies which have been wrapped, fold upon fold, around truth.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 1 : Mystical Life in The Modern World > # 23