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The fallacious self-deification of New Thought, this human audacity "thrusting insolently beyond what our nature warrants," as Plotinus called it, is not new; Plotinus had to ridicule its folly at Rome in the third century with the scathing sentence: "Imbeciles are to be found who accept this teaching as soon as they have heard it uttered!"

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 61