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It is insufficient understanding of the mental processes behind an intuition, a message, or a revelation which causes would-be mystics and even quite a number of practising mystics to accept without question these inward impressions as being of divine origin when they are nothing of the sort. When this ignorance is allied to insufficient emotional control and insufficient knowledge of the history of mysticism, both past and current, both Occidental and Oriental, then a fanatic is bred and truth is lost or missed; then danger besets him and all those who put themselves under his influence.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 14 : The Sensitive Mind > # 113