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People with acidulated tempers or gross selfishness, with serious neuroses or wild hysterias, are required to improve themselves until they are sufficiently changed, before attempting to penetrate the deeper arcana of meditation. For the result would be morally or intellectually harmful to them. Yet it is unfortunately the case that so many among those attracted to mysticism are psychoneurotics. It is worse still when they are half-educated persons. They are often incapable of absorbing its moral disciplines, or are unwilling to do so. The well-educated, who might be expected to be more balanced, are also more sceptical of it.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 518