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All attempts of the ego to wrest powers from the Overself and use them for its own independent purposes may succeed only for a time; in the end those who try are stricken by dismal failure, while in the beginning and the middle they are punished by being forbidden entry into the territory of the Overself.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 12