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It is not without worth to humanity that in a transitional era of catastrophe and violence, in a society of superficiality, neuroticism, and insanity, there should be some men and women who can act as direct links, as it were, between it and the divine world, as shining lighthouses in the darkened sea of their time. Only the mystical philosophers possess the essential knowledge of all the forces which are active behind the leading episodes of the world scenes, because they alone possess insight. And only the mystical philosophers estimate those episodes adequately and accurately, because they alone possess enough selfless impartiality and inner freedom to do so aright.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 4 : World Crisis > # 316