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Just as a photograph contains certain magnetic radiations which link it with the person pictured thereon but which vanish with his death, so the book of a living author offers an activated link between his mind, which is incarnated in its pages, and those readers who look to him and his writings for help. Although at his death the contact with his actual mind is broken, the contact with the way in which it worked is not.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 5 : Visualizations, Symbols > # 49