{Archetypes and Qualities(1) [continued(3)]}[11th April 1987]

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And, really, all that the Circles are about is a way of helping to do this* – I believe. If they seem to work in the outside World at times, this is because the Spirit itself permeates the outside World: religious experience of an inner kind frequently produces echoes in observations and events of an outer kind.

I know I try to force the fit to the outside World, sometimes, but this is because it fascinates me so much: the important thing (until I can give up the habit) is to be ready to abandon things that feel wrong. Once again comes the warning against superstitious error: too great a concentration on externals, even on externals symbolising internals, brings dangers of externalising the whole experience and losing the inward search for God.**

*[i.e. concentrating our search for God as the Absolute Truth, in the Inner Sense through which these absolutely true Qualities appear. See last previous entry.]

**This was a great danger in the preparation of '[S&C]'; and this re-reading of these notebooks is partly part [sic] of the process of recovering that inner orientation. <930418> [Also to some extent I think now, at <20160214>]

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