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Spiritual development is one thing; spiritual domination by other is its opposite. The first is mysticism, the second mediumship. The first leads to the taking possession of oneself, the second to losing one's most valuable attributes: will and reason, self-control and, in certain cases, even consciousness.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 110