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The disappearance of balance from mysticism means the disappearance of intellectual self-reliance, of the validity of reason, and of the realistic attitude towards life. The heavy price which mystics pay for this loss has been revealed by history. For when superstition supplants reason, suffering follows like a shadow.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 200