The Road to Initiation
The article: On My Cosmic Analyses
Chapter 14
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall
But as nothing that is built on delusion can endure, then such unions, which are based more on the satisfaction of vanity and the desire for power than on real love for humanity, cannot endure either. And with internal slander, envy and fights for leadership, and with outward hatred, intolerance and opposition towards other spiritual movements from which they fear "competition", they cannot possibly keep up their reputation as a society for the "holy", "faithful" and "saved", and these unions are therefore dissolved one by one. But the "members" have gained good and indispensable experiences; they have come a small step further towards acknowledging the words of the great world redeemer: "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall".