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He will have achieved what is a goal for himself but what is only the starting point of a further path for the philosophical student. If, preoccupied with the Part (himself), he ignores the Whole (the sensuous universe) when his retracted attention returns to his external environment, he will be a mystic--a perfect mystic indeed, but not more.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 131