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To place the only competent masters in the Orient and nowhere else is to deny the entire spiritual history of the West. Were Eckhart, Molinos, Emerson, Pythagoras, and Saint Teresa not Occidentals? Is there any law forbidding the Indian gurus to reincarnate in the West? If not, why may there not be illumined Occidentals who in former lives were illumined Orientals?

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 101