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In the Sphinx sits the symbol of that enterprise which offers the candidate for initiation his greatest reward but which paradoxically brings his greatest suffering. This is the conquest of passion by reason and will and the overcoming of personal emotion by impersonal intuition.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 109