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Quite a number of mystics have never even had the trance experience although they have had ecstasies, intuitions, messages, visions, and other exalted phenomena. It is not at any stage a necessity of the mystical path.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 50