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Reasoned thinking may contribute in two ways to the service of mystical intuition and mystical experience. First and commonest is a negative way. It can provide safeguards and checks against their errors, exaggerations, vagaries, and extravagances. Second and rarest is a positive and creative way. It can lead the aspirant to its highest pitch of abstract working and then invite its own displacement by a higher power.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 1 : The Place of Intellect > # 134 -- Perspectives > Chapter 7: The Intellect > # 11