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... we can never agree with the author "that rites and ritual and formal worship and prayers are of the absolute necessity of things," for the external can develop and grow and receive worship only at the expense of, and to the detriment of, the internal, the only real and true.

H.P. Blavatsky Coll. Wr. Vol. XVI, p.120, ft.
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