It might seem that we devoted too much space in The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga to the chapters entitled "The Worship of Words" and "The Arbitrament of Thinking Power." There were, however, quite a few reasons why we did so and one of them was that mystically minded persons--who naturally composed the larger portion of our readers--had to be led to a higher octave of mysticism, the philosophic. But this could only be done by encouraging them to think for themselves, to cease taking certain dogmas blindly and certain men at traditional valuations, and to learn discrimination between the merely emotional and the authentically spiritual. One of the finest roads to such independent thought is the analytic striving to find out truth by words, phrases, and statements.
-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 4 : Abstract Thought > # 42
