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Once again must a warning be given against the dangers of falling into mere psychism and seeking for phenomena, visions, miracles, and other things which are still in the realm of a kind of subtle materialism and are always connected with the personal ego. The true spiritual experience is higher than that, purer than that, and will leave him absolutely calm, whereas the psychical phenomena leave him excited. Every kind of such phenomena involves thought or emotion, whereas the deepest spiritual experience goes beneath thought and emotion and especially beneath the personal ego. Only then does one come in contact with the Infinite life-power which is behind everything and which is the true goal of this Quest.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 5 : Self-Development > # 433