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As to the public teachers of the occult, there are none in the West really competent to lead people into truth, whatever their claims may be. The real teachers are so rare nowadays that it is almost impossible to find them. In these circumstances it is safer and wiser to confine oneself to the study of authoritative books rather than to associate with inferior sources of help.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 165