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The intellect's finest function is to point the way to this actual living awareness of the Overself that is beyond itself. This it does on the upward path. But it has a further function to perform after that awareness has been successfully gained. That is to translate that experience into its own terms, and hence into ordinarily comprehensible ones, both for its own and other people's benefit.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 1 : The Place of Intellect > # 133 -- Perspectives > Chapter 7: The Intellect > # 13