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There is this vital difference, that whereas the scientist can only observe the object into which he is investigating, the mystic can participate in the one upon which he is meditating. In the first case, there is a knowing in separation from it; in the second, a knowing in union with it.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 6 : Science > # 106