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<p class="paracenter">AND THIS AGILE REASON
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Reason is an agility gymnast. It can move in 
all varieties of ways, make infinite twists, the most impossible 
contortions with equal ease and skill. It does not seek the truth, 
although it may pretend to do so; for it cannot find the truth. The law 
of uncertainty or indeterminacy seems also to be the last word of modern
 Science. What Reason does and can do is to justify, find arguments for 
whatever position it is put in or called upon to support. Its business 
is to supply "proofs": it can do so as the spider brings out of itself 
the whole warp and woof of the cobweb. There is no truth, that is to 
say, no conclusion which it cannot demonstrate and all with equal 
cogency. That was indeed the great discovery of the great Kant who described it as the antinomies of Reason. Reason finds it infinitely exhilarating to <i>pirouette ad infinitum, </i>
i.e., beating about the bush 
without caring to look for the fact or reality hidden in the bush.</p>
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Is it then to say that this faculty is a falsehood 
and that it can lead you only to falsehood? Not necessarily. It becomes a
 falsehood when you try to live according to it, according to an idea or
 ideas it has taken a fancy to; for then it is bound to land you in 
contradictions. Otherwise, if it is not a question of practical 
application, if it is merely a play or playfulness in the mental world, 
it is harmless acrobatics; and even in its own way it can be of
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<p class="para">some use in making your brain sharp, alert, strong and supple.
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Reason is a bad master; a free-lance, it often goes 
amuck. But controlled and yoked, reined in and guided by the higher 
light, it is a help, even a necessity; for it gives the immediate form 
in which to hold and fix in the physical world the truth-movements of 
the higher consciousness.
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