accumulations of thought can be far more virulent than poisons!

367.  We do not go to a shop to purchase clothing infected with smallpox, yet this infection will be only a one-thousandth part of the contagion present.  How often have I stated that the accumulations of thought can be far more virulent than poisons!  Just as fire deposits a patina upon a vessel, so is the fire of thought irremovable when it saturates the surface of an object.  Among purifiers eucalyptus is useful for it contains much fire.  All living fire is also useful.  Much infection has been destroyed around bonfires.  -M:  Fiery World 1933

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122.  We do not conceal the need for urgent measures, because in the ongoing Armageddon the dark ones hope to corrupt all human energies.  But We know how to oppose them.  Thus observe where We direct Our care.  -M:  Supermundane 1, 1938

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