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It is this pernicious doctrine of ever relying upon extraneous help that leads to the collapse - physical, mental, moral, and spiritual - of well-meaning, but weak and unbalanced minds.
It slays the patient of the mesmerizer and the mental healer, the neophyte of the sorcerer, and the dilettante of Reform.
Neither success nor safety is to be found outside self-development.

H.P. Blavatsky Coll. Wr. Vol. X, p. 96
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