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We must make a distinction between a doctrinal principle and the human personality who serves as the vehicle for such a principle. The principle will live when the personality is dead. Our absolute loyalty, therefore, must be bestowed on what is immortal, not on what is mortal. The human disseminator of the principle should receive only a conditional allegiance. The pure Idea may incarnate itself in the man but he may sully, betray, or pollute it with his human error, prejudice, or selfishness.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 826