It is in bringing home the pitfalls of psychism, the dangers of mysticism, the perils of untrained intuition that a study of his inner life will be fruitful. Hitler, a distorted mystic, a perversely inspired man, claimed that his intuition informed him that he was carrying out God's will. It is in the critical examination and testing of such a claim that the value of metaphysical training proves itself. The fact is that neither Hitler nor anyone else can correctly make such a claim before two efforts have been successfully made: first, to ascertain what God is, and second, to ascertain how His will expresses itself. Gandhi too claimed that the inner voice of God gave him guidance in affairs of State. But he was always honest enough and great enough to admit later, as Hitler in his arrogance never did, that he had several times made what he himself called "Himalayan blunders." Let us admit that Hitler was the most astonishing man in Europe and that Gandhi was the most powerful force in political India. But this said, let us not deceive ourselves about nonpolitical matters in the essential need of discriminating between pseudo-intuition and genuine intuition.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 66
