“I would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare.”

Source: Glamour: A World Problem (1950), Certain Preliminary Clarifications

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esoteric, theosophist, writer 1880–1949

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“I would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare.”

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