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The mistake of the mystic is to seek in immediate feeling a reality through which the reason has not worked its way, instead of boldly renouncing that feeling for the higher work of reflection and thus eventually attaining a loftier form of realization which preserves the results of that reflection whilst outgrowing its limitation.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 146