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The religions of Europe are torpid; its cults are in a state of apathy. Those leaders who have conquered the small groups of occult and mystical students possess no influence with the people at large because they possess no spiritual power; they pour but a continuous cascade of words. The crowd who follows them confuses this windy rhetoric with spiritual reality.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 7 : Beyond Religion As We Know It > # 70