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The wide gulf which separates these pseudo-mystical, prosperity-seeking, modern sects like New Thought and "Science of Mind" from true mysticism is lit up by the emanation from a single Arabic word facqueer, which has spread its usage throughout the Orient from Morocco to India. The word literally means "one who is poor" but usually means a holy man, while the condition of poverty has come to be associated with the Sufis, the most important order of Muhammedan mystics.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 80