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The mystic is forced by the tempo of formidable events into a new usefulness and practicality. He is having to bring society into his purview, the State into his scheme of things, ephemeral history into his contemplations of eternity, and hard economics into his spiritual problems. He is being made to surrender amateurish dabbling in meditation or neurotic playing with it. He is being compelled to forego the tea-table treatment of the mystical experience as though it were mere embroidery on life instead of being the very core of life itself.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 132