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famous parable on the unfaithful steward . Contrarily, in the esoteric domain, one
cannot obtain a pure, true and beautiful result without having rendered the equivalent

service, that is, the sum and importance of the work one furnishes must equal the
results which one hopes to gain. Inversely, the importance of the results one obtains for

oneself is always equivalent, quantitatively and qualitatively, to the measure of services

rendered, on the esoteric plane, naturally.
We emphasise pure and true, for they indicate permanence. It is possible to obtain

so-called esoteric results but impure and, consequently, false and temporary.

Here, we are referring to the vast domain of occultism where the children of this

world, shrewder than the children of light, try to apply their cunning beyond the limits

of the visible world. This is what we call "phenomenalistic mysticism". We will return to
this subject later on.

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Hence, if the seeker sets out with a negative approach and a feeling of dissatisfaction

and deficiency, he will not be able to advance very much on this road. One cannot

approach the esoteric domain prompted by the desire to find personal satisfaction, a
goal which is necessarily impure. If one persists, one will meet with failure. For the error

made at the outstart, can only lead to that "phenomenalistic mysticism" to which we

have referred already.

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Luke, XVI, 8 (of the Slavonic text).