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Simone Weil tells how the highly concentrated recitation, with all needed tender feeling, of a devotional-metaphysical poem by the seventeenth-century Englishman, George Herbert, turned her from an agnostic into a mystic as the Christ-consciousness took possession of her. This result was as unsought as it was unexpected.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 6 : Mantrams, Affirmations > # 205