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Oriental Mysticism: Part I: Chapter IV. Concerning Fellowship and Renunciation

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Fellowship"FELLOWSHIP has many qualities and effects both of good and evil. The fellowship of the wise is the only thing that can conduct the Traveller safely to the Goal; therefore all the submission, earnestness and discipline that have been hitherto inculcated are merely in order to render him worthy of such fellowship. Provided he have the capacity, a single day, nay, a single hour, in the society of the wise, tends more to his improvement than years of self-discipline without it.

Oriental Mysticism: Part I: Chapter IV. Concerning Fellowship and Renunciation

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