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We must remember that a leader's name has acquired special meaning for his followers, that it is charged by their own minds, through the effect of suggestion, with a certain stimulus and exceptional symbolism. Hence they react to it favourably in a way in which non-followers do not.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 6 : Delusions and Painful Awakenings > # 16